NYAB Event - Milton Glaser "Drawing Is Thinking"

Milton Glaser "Drawing Is Thinking"

Gallery 138

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Gallery 138 is pleased to present Milton Glaser "Drawing Is Thinking," an exhibition of original drawings, limited edition prints, and sketchbooks. Drawing Is Thinking accompanies the release of his new book of drawings of the same title. This new volume of his work, in addition to the upcoming exhibition, clarifies a fundamental premise: to Glaser, drawing is not just a way to represent reality but, as the title suggests, to understand and experience the world.

The 210 drawings in Drawing Is Thinking, taken from commissions such as the Julliard School of Music and The New York Times, represent GlaserÕs prodigious range of style and subject matter. In viewing the exhibition, we walk with the master as he considers food, music, mortal passion, good and evil, weather, death, pets, and architecture. Other artists also pique his interest; when Glaser was a Fulbright scholar in Bologna, Morandi was his beloved teacher, but he has also created drawings in visual conversation with Piero, da Vinci, Monet, and Dante.

Glaser has mined a collection of his own work executed over the last fifty years in order to create the book, organizing the drawings sequentially instead of by chronology, subject, or medium. As in a musical progression, the images are visual dialectics: each relates to what comes before and anticipates what follows. The result moves the mind in ways that are completely different from traditional thinking.

Milton Glaser (b. 1929) lives and works in New York City. He has had the distinction of solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Boston, The Georges Pompidou Center, The Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, and the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa in Venice. GlaserÕs work is in the permanent collections of MOMA, The Israel Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and The Cooper-Hewitt. In 2004 he was selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt for his profound and meaningful contribution to the contemporary practice of design.

Media

• Drawing
• Prints

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