NYAB Event - "Extravagant Drawing" Exhibition

"Extravagant Drawing" Exhibition

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs

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D O R S K Y G A L L ER Y | Curatorial Programs presents Extravagant Drawing, curated byJudith Tolnick Champawil. A color brochure with an essay by the curator has been published to accompany the exhibition.

Tolnick Champa explains in her essay: "The slipperiness of drawing, with its immediacy and sense of becoming, is an expressive quality that stimulates a broad stylistic swath of contemporary artists. Drawing is a liberating point of origin and point of return for many accomplished artists working in and across various media today..." In the present exhibition, there is a collective extravagance that unites the work of the nine distinctive artists shown: Natalie Alper, Tayo Heuser, Irene Lawrence, Masako Kamiya, Jill Moser, Jessica Deane Rosner, Fran Siegel, Sarah Walker and Heeseop Yoon."

Drawing's qualities - its directness of hand-made mark making, its closeness as an original object to artistic conception itself - engages and sustains the attention of innovative emerging and established artists and creates avid audiences. In part as a challenge to the omnipresent virtual domain, drawing has come to operate with renewed intentionality and vigor. It achieves this in the notably "expanded field" of physical/inter-disciplinary space, or by adhering quirkily to a lavish preciousness of touch. Tolnick Champa refers to these qualities - dynamically present within the current grouping of drawings - as "extravagance."

Judith Tolnick Champa is an independent curator and critic. She serves on the Board of the New England Museum Association and is a member of ArtTable and International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. With co-curator Viera Levitt, she has initiated planning for a first-ever Providence Biennial. She has served as director of the former Fine Arts Center Galleries at the University of Rhode Island, where she curated three galleries, including a dedicated photography space. She also served as the curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Tolnick Champa has curated well over 50 solo and focused group exhibition.).

Media

• Drawing

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