"Nature, Once Removed: The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing" Exhibition
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At Lehman College Art Gallery
Media: Drawing
Nature, Once Removed: The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing presents a selection of work by 21 contemporary artists who use drawing to explore our alienated relationship to nature, creating oblique narratives inflected with irony, anxiety, grotesquerie and satire. Much of the stylization of plants, animals and geological forms in the show bears the influence of popular culture, demonstrating the degree to which our contemporary conception of the natural world has been shaped by cartoons and advertising. The work in the show varies significantly in its treatment of the theme, alternately mythic (Huey, Saul), abstract (Crump, Herrera, Taylor), fantastic (Fueki, Hancock, Karpov, Ulivo), political (Esquivel, Piehl), nostalgic (Barrett, Panter), pessimistic (Di Genova, Hoving), deadpan (Brown, Patch) and wryly funny (De Los Angeles, Johnston, Peterson, Wesley). A variety of formal and technical means are on display, including woodburning, bravura brushwork, meticulous collage and finely polished graphite drawing.
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Schedule
From 2010-02-03 To 2010-05-04
Opening Reception on 2010-03-15 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Melissa Barrett, Melissa Brown, William Crump, Lorenzo De Los Angeles, Nicholas Di Genova, Felix Esquivel, Chie Fueki, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Arturo Herrera, Jackie Hoving, Elizabeth Huey, Daniel Johnston, Darina Karpov, Gary Panter, Christopher Patch, Lamar Peterson, Angela Piehl, Peter Saul, Craig Taylor, Christopher Ulivo, John Wesley
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