John Lees and Gordon Moore Exhibition
Betty Cuningham Gallery
This event has ended.
Included in the exhibit are several drawings by John Lees, most begun years ago and recently completed. He works and then amends his drawings, often over the course of many years, keeping a record of dates on the reverse side or edge of the paper, documenting his journey and the artistic path of the work. While working on his drawings, Lees enters his own personal dream world, incorporating people and things that inhabit those dreams: his wife, his backyard stream, his childhood house, his dog and his vast imaginary world, made rich by his love for film, jazz, vaudeville and comedy.
The Gordon Moore works featured in the show are watercolor, ink, graphite, and gouache drawings from recent years. The drawings are both restrained and complex. To explore his spatial concerns, Moore uses a network of graphic lines as a boundary, weaving throughout the surface defining a rigid area. The inspiration for his grid came from a New York street: rebar jutting through a section of security netting. His drawings, like his paintings, have continued the evolution of his grid, which has become more irregular and asymmetric but continue to marry the intellectual with the physical.
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Schedule
from May 07, 2009 to June 13, 2009