“Core Sample: Open Sessions 13” Exhibition

The Drawing Center

[Image: Zatara McIntyre "Untitled" (2018) Pastel, oil stick, and acrylic on paper, 30 x 23 in. Courtesy of the artist.]

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A clear line meanders through space, losing speed and direction until it shifts shape, becoming a cloud on a page. Core Sample: Open Sessions 13 explores drawn marks as a way to locate place on a sheet of paper or to suggest the expanse of geospatial time travel. Symbolic gestures borrowed from mythic worlds alongside references to the everyday offer insight into the artists’ varied traditions, identities, and cultures. Core Sample: Open Sessions 13 features the work of Alex Callender, Liz Collins, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Zatara McIntyre, Johanna Unzueta, and Cosmo Whyte.

Core Sample is one of five exhibitions presented in The Lab between October 2018 and December 2019 as part of the third cycle of The Drawing Centers Open Sessions program. These thematic group shows are conceived and organized by Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal, Open Sessions Curators, together with participating artists. In the second year of the program cycle, Open Sessions Curators also organize a full-museum exhibition to which all Open Sessions artists contribute work that best manifests and/or expands the meaning and relevance of drawing today.

PUBLIC PROGRAM
Monday, January 7, 2019, at 6:30pm
In the 1970s the artist Alighiero Boetti made his signature series of ballpoint pen drawings, exploring chance and order, systems of classification, duality, and collective labor. These large abstract drawings were produced by students who followed specific guidelines and were divided by gender. In conjunction with Core Sample: Open Sessions 13, participating artists will lead a workshop recreating Boetti’s drawing system through an expanded notion of gender classification. Participants will be asked to self-identify, discarding Boetti’s binary structure and re-centering the activity as an exploration of gender and drawing.