Explore The Drawing Center online with our new Digital Guide, now available as part of the Bloomberg Connects app.
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Available for free download on the Apple App Store and Google play, the Digital Guide offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore The Drawing Center virtually. It features a wide range of content including audio guides from our curators, videos from our current exhibitions, a look into our history, publication spotlights, drawing activities for families, and much more.
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Download today to start exploring!
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#MuseumFromHome @bloombergdotorg
Explore The Drawing Center online with our new Digital Guide, now available as part of the Bloomberg Connects app.
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Available for free download on the Apple App Store and Google play, the Digital Guide offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore The Drawing Center virtually. It features a wide range of content including audio guides from our curators, videos from our current exhibitions, a look into our history, publication spotlights, drawing activities for families, and much more.
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Download today to start exploring!
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#MuseumFromHome @bloombergdotorg
Join Assistant Curator Rosario Güiraldes @rosarioguiraldes tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29 at 6pm, for a talk on the visionary drawing practice of artist Guo Fengyi while sharing some of Guo’s mystical drawings on view in our ongoing exhibition “Guo Fengyi: To See from a Distance." Tune into our youtube channel via the link in our bio to view the livestream!
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Guo Fengyi (b. 1942, Xi'an) was a self-taught artist who practiced the ancient Chinese wellness technique of qigong to heal her chronic arthritis pain. During her qigong meditations, Guo drew what she envisioned, creating intricate ink drawings on subjects ranging from cosmology and Chinese mythology to traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy.
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Video by @motionprinciples
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Featuring more than thirty works from Guo’s brief yet prolific career, "To See from a Distance" is the first major institutional presentation of the Chinese artist’s work in the United States. The exhibition spans two floors of The Drawing Center’s galleries, providing an overview of Guo’s visionary drawings, which incorporate the diagrammatic, the mystical, and the wildly imaginative.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Guo’s drawings were generated from internal visioning processes that she experienced while practicing qigong, an ancient Chinese wellness and healing technique that incorporates movement, breathing, and meditation. During her meditations, Guo drew what she envisioned, creating intricate ink drawings on subjects ranging from cosmology and Chinese mythology to traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the link in our bio!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Animation by @motionprinciples
This Saturday, April 27 check out all the arts organizations in and around SoHo for this year’s Downtown Culture Walk presented by the SoHo Arts Network (SAN). We will be hosting open hours from 12-6pm and The Drawing Center will be offering FREE admission to see our current exhibitions: "Neo Rauch: Aus dem Boden / From the Floor" and "As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now".
You can grab a map to visit one of the other 18 nonprofit arts organizations offering free or reduced admission too. Click here for a digital map=>https://bit.ly/2GklnHl
SAN is a consortium that celebrates the rich history of our unique creative community and collectively shares our distinct cultural contributions with neighborhood residents and visitors in downtown Manhattan.
Media partner: Art in America
Map by NYArtMaps
Graphics and animation by Biel Studio
"Making Policy Public 10th Anniversary"
Watch this clip from The Center for Urban Pedagogy's short doc "Making Policy Public 10th Anniversary", 2019. Courtesy of The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP).
You can see the full length version in our Main Gallery during Winter Term 2019 with CUP, which continues through March 24. Read more about Winter Term here=>https://bit.ly/2TPdJKd
Winter Term: Torkwase Dyson
On February 2018, The Drawing Center announced Winter Term, a new annual initiative in which the museum partners with an artist or organization whose mission it is to explore the transformative role that drawing can play in civic and global society. The yearly program, which consists of public events, classes, and performances, as well as an exhibition, engages with a community of people to investigate the efficacy of drawing as a tool for addressing inequity and encouraging social change. In this way, Winter Term provides a new model for exhibition making, as well as for the role that art institutions can play in the real world.
From February 24 through March 11, 2018, The Drawing Center invited artist Torkwase Dyson to create an installation and organize a two-week series of classes, discussions, and formal experiments developed from her incipient project the Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice—named for Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and American Civil Rights leader Ida B. Wells. The School presented an experimental curriculum employing techniques culled from the visual arts as well as design theories of geography, infrastructure, engineering, and architecture to initiate dialogue about geography and spatiality in an era of global crisis due to human-induced climate change.
Ellen Berkenblit, Lines Roar
Watch the trailer for "Ellen Berkenblit, Lines Roar", 2018, and join us this Thursday, April 26 for the evening opening, 6-8pm and next Monday, April 30 for a screening and talk, 6:45pm.
Ellen Berkenblit’s first film "Lines Roar" (2018) presents a look into her process. Concentrating on the explosive nature of Berkenblit’s line, the film features familiar motifs from her paintings and drawings: a long-nosed female, a tiger, a stiletto. "Lines Roar" intermingles autobiographical footage taken by Berkenblit in both her home and studio. Also interlaced throughout the film are photographs of Berkenblit’s family and images taken by her father, who was an amateur photographer and chemist. The result is a film that combines Berkenblit’s life with her work, an intimate look at what drives the artist’s practice.
A film by Ellen Berkenblit in collaboration with directors Mónica Brand and Francisco Lopez. Original Score by Zeena Parkins; Zeena Parkins: Harps/Electronics/Tuning Forks; Ikue Mori: Electronics.
"Ellen Berkenblit: Lines Roar" will be on view in The Drawing Center’s Lab during the Summer of 2018 from April 26 to June 10 and again from June 27 to August 12.
FUNHOUSE Clown, 2018
During the FUNHOUSE book fair last weekend, artist Lilli Carré had visitors each work on a frame of a clown animation. Here is the result which includes the collective work of 155 people, including the artist herself.
Panel discussion with Ekene Ijeoma, Ron Morrison, and Mabel O. Wilson. Moderated by Rujeko Hockley.
What is Dust?
Watch our latest online gallery pick, "What is Dust?" part of a series, entitled "The Misguided Guide to the Origin of Everything", created collaboratively by a group of artists including Thu Tran, who will be a resident at The Drawing Center’s upcoming FUNHOUSE book fair on March 24 + 25. [Tickets for FUNHOUSE are available here =>tinyurl.com/funhousebookfair]
The animation series focuses on questions raised in the course of everyday life; as Thu Tran has said, “Unburdened by reality and facts, everyone has an absurd answer to life’s mysteries, leaving their black and white reality, and entering a full-color world of imagination.” Other questions explored in the series include What is time?, Why do we smile when we are happy?, and Why do owls say who?.
Thu Tran is a multimedia artist and producer known for her cooking show on IFC, “Food Party” and MTV web series, “Late Night Munchies.” Her comic book "Dust Pam" is a playful romp about a cat with a dust pan for a mouth who wants her house to be clean, but just can’t get rid of the bugs. The comic is illustrated in a neon palette in Tran’s signature kooky style. Tran has a BFA in Glass from the Cleveland Institute of Art, has supplied props and visuals to the mashup artist Girl Talk, and has been named one of “New York’s Most Beautiful People” by Paper Magazine. She is a mentor at the visual narrative program at SVA in NYC.
Winter Term Talk with Torkwase Dyson and Christina Sharpe
Yesterday artist Inka Essenhigh worked from high above on her wall drawing, “Manhattanhenge” in our stairwell.
Rabbithole
Watch our latest online gallery pick! Chitra Ganesh's "Rabbithole", 2010. Animation with music by Karsh Kale, 3 minutes.
Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn-based artist whose drawings combine the aesthetics of early modern fairytales, traditional Buddhist and Hindu mythology, and contemporary visual culture. Her drawings, which weave together diverse archetypes—animal hybrids, female warriors, and heavenly landscapes—construct complex narratives that disarm the insulating function of national and religious traditions.
An exhibition of a new series of animations by Ganesh, entitled "The Scorpion Gesture", will be on view at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York until January 2019 alongside the exhibition "Face of the Future", which Ganesh organized and which will be on view until November 2, 2018. "Face of the Future" will include collage-based pieces by Ganesh and seven emerging artists: Maia Cruz Palileo, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Tammy Nguyen, Jagdeep Raina, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Anuj Shrestha, and Tuesday Smillie.
Ganesh is a former a fellow of The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, New York; Museum of San Diego, La Jolla, California; Berkeley Art Museum; Bronx Museum, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Dwell
Watch our next online gallery pick: Matthew Otten's video "Dwell", 2014. Music: Moonlight Reprise by Kai Engel.
Matthew Otten is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Neath, South Wales. His practice has been influenced by the mythologies of Nordic and Southeast Asian cultures, particularly those with a connection to the forest. His style is an experimental combination of traditional drawing and digital compositing that values clarity, balance, and simplicity. Dwell and Difference are collections of animations and moving illustrations that examine the natural environment.
Matthew Otten is featured on The Drawing Center’s online gallery as part of an exchange with Mission Gallery in Swansea, UK organized by Amanda Roderick (Director of Mission Gallery, Swansea) and Amber Harper (Assistant Curator of The Drawing Center, New York). The collaboration celebrates Mission Gallery’s New York Season, which celebrates the gallery’s connection with cultural organizations via Residency Unlimited.
Difference
Watch our next online gallery pick: Matthew Otten's video "Difference", 2015. Music: Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie.
Matthew Otten is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Neath, South Wales. His practice has been influenced by the mythologies of Nordic and Southeast Asian cultures, particularly those with a connection to the forest. His style is an experimental combination of traditional drawing and digital compositing that values clarity, balance, and simplicity. Dwell and Difference are collections of animations and moving illustrations that examine the natural environment.
Matthew Otten is featured on The Drawing Center’s online gallery as part of an exchange with Mission Gallery in Swansea, UK organized by Amanda Roderick (Director of Mission Gallery, Swansea) and Amber Harper (Assistant Curator of The Drawing Center, New York). The collaboration celebrates Mission Gallery’s New York Season, which celebrates the gallery’s connection with cultural organizations via Residency Unlimited.
T J
Watch our online gallery selection, "TJ", an animation created by Tim Stokes.
Tim Stokes is based in South Wales and works as an artist, technician and arts educator. His videos are handmade animations translated from original home video footage. Using video fragments broken down into individual frames, Stokes reinterpreted them through drawing on paper. These drawings were collated, scanned and resurrected into a new form: evidencing loss in their reinterpretation and offering a sense of ambiguity. Tim Stokes is featured on The Drawing Center's online gallery as part of an exchange with Mission Gallery in Swansea, UK organized by Amanda Roderick (Director of Mission Gallery, Swansea) and Amber Harper (Assistant Curator of The Drawing Center, New York).
Tim Stokes, T J, 2008. Animation created with black metal paint on paper.
#GivingTuesday Raffle Prize
The Drawing Center needs your support. Please consider making a fully tax-deductible donation to The Drawing Center today for #GivingTuesday. Donate --> https://goo.gl/WVz4Hx
Anyone who gives $10 or more will be entered into a raffle for exciting prizes, including a limited edition print by R. H. Quaytman; signed catalogs from our current exhibitions and a copy of Matias Duville's "Alaska"; and a set of exquisite Faber-Castell pencils and the world-famous Drawing Center tote bag (pictured here)!
Pelegrina
Watch our online gallery selection: "Pelegrina", 2006. Written, directed and animated by Virginia Head. "Pelegrina" is an enchanting piece of music is being composed for an unusual stringed instrument. While its components begin to assemble we are taken on a mysterious journey, traversing the convoluted patterns and depths created by both the music and the wood that shapes the instrument.
Virginia Head is an artist and filmmaker with a degree in illustration from Brighton Polytechnic, England. She has worked for several award winning animation companies throughout Wales and England, illustrated for televised history documentaries, dramas and magazines, and produced four of her own independent animated films. Head is featured on The Drawing Center’s online gallery as part of an exchange with Mission Gallery in Swansea, UK.
Video: Virginia Head, "Pelegrina", 2006. Written, directed and animated by Virginia Head. (A Virginia Head film) Music by Dave Stapleton at Red Eye Music; Editor – Jem Roberts; Viola – Philip Heyman; Piano – Zoe Smith; String Consultant – Victoria Wright; Recorded by James Clarke; Assistant Animation by Ceiren Bell, Jem Roberts, Ross Woodfield. (A Virginia Head film)
#GivingTuesday Raffle Prize
The Drawing Center needs your support. Through charitable contributions from individuals like you, we consistently mount important exhibitions and organize dynamic educational opportunities for people of all ages. Please consider making a fully tax-deductible donation to The Drawing Center between now and #GivingTuesday (November 28) to support our work. Donate --> https://goo.gl/WVz4Hx
Give $10 or more to be entered into a prize raffle. Prizes include a limited edition print by R. H. Quaytman; signed copies of the catalogs for current exhibitions "Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors" and "Eddie Martinez: Studio Wall" as well as a copy of "Matias Duville: Alaska" (pictured above); and a set of exquisite Faber-Castell pencils and the world-famous Drawing Center tote bag!
Downtown Culture Talk with artist Judith Bernstein and curator Alison M. Gingeras
Musicians
Join us for series of performances this Thursday, September 7–Sept 9 | "David Scher: Does It Fold?" starts nightly at 6:30pm | Tickets $10 + program via eventbrite >> goo.gl/t8Ecxv
In The Lab, multi-disciplinary artist David Scher will appear alongside special guests for three evenings of performances. Nightly poetry readings, film screenings, and musical performances will take place in dialogue with a pop-up exhibition of Scher’s sketchbooks and musical scores.
Thursday, September 7
Musical performances by Sean Eden and O.N.E.M. with film screenings by Mike Ballou, Stefan Bohnenberger, and David Scher
Friday, September 8
Artist talk by David Scher with musical performances by Sean Eden and a performance by O.N.E.M., which will reference Scher’s hand-drawn scores
Saturday, September 9
Poetry readings by Jeff Dolven and Aaron Kunin with a poetry reading and film screening by Brian Dewan and musical performances by Sean Eden and O.N.E.M.
Discussions will focus on the dreamlike landscapes, figures, and follies that fill the more than 1200 sketchbooks Scher has created over nearly six decades of drawing. While giving life to the symbols and storylines that crisscross Scher’s sketches, "Does It Fold?" will celebrate the impulse to draw and Scher’s own stream-of-consciousness practice that beclouds boundaries between the real world and the imaginary.
Video by Carter Gun.
Loopdeloop
Watch our latest online gallery pick! Alex Grigg is an Australian animator and designer. His animation, “Loopdeloop", gives viewers voyeuristic glimpses of unexpected activities unfolding within comic strip-like windows. Grigg, who often uses abstraction to add levity in his work, suggests only parts of possible disconnected narratives, allowing viewers to construct their own absurdist storyline to unite the animated characters.
Alex Grigg, "Loopdeloop", 2014. Animation, looped, 44 seconds. Sound by Jude Cohn. Courtesy of the artist.
Carter Gun
Join us for series of performances September 7–9 | "David Scher: Does It Fold?" starts nightly at 6:30pm | Tickets $10 + program via eventbright >> goo.gl/t8Ecxv
In The Lab, multi-disciplinary artist David Scher will appear alongside special guests for three evenings of performances. Nightly poetry readings, film screenings, and musical performances will take place in dialogue with a pop-up exhibition of Scher’s sketchbooks and musical scores.
Thursday, September 7
Musical performances by Sean Eden and O.N.E.M. with film screenings by Mike Ballou, Stefan Bohnenberger, and David Scher
Friday, September 8
Artist talk by David Scher with musical performances by Sean Eden and a performance by O.N.E.M., which will reference Scher’s hand-drawn scores
Saturday, September 9
Poetry readings by Jeff Dolven and Aaron Kunin with a poetry reading and film screening by Brian Dewan and musical performances by Sean Eden and O.N.E.M.
Discussions will focus on the dreamlike landscapes, figures, and follies that fill the more than 1200 sketchbooks Scher has created over nearly six decades of drawing. While giving life to the symbols and storylines that crisscross Scher’s sketches, "Does It Fold?" will celebrate the impulse to draw and Scher’s own stream-of-consciousness practice that beclouds boundaries between the real world and the imaginary.
Video: Carter Gun, Animation of drawings by David Scher. Flipbook. 3 minutes, looped.
John Booley, Five Years of the Weather Page, 2005.
A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive
This page from Drawing Papers 60 features an excerpt of John Dooley’s “Five Years of the Weather Page” that was created in 2005.
The 2006 exhibition Analog Animation presented the work of 18 Viewing Program artists who animated their drawings largely with “old-fashioned,” hand-drawn animation techniques rather than digital media. Analog Animation highlighted a wide array of inventive animated works presented in a continuous projected loop and four site-specific installations. The artists used such disparate media as collage, imprints, silhouettes, light gels, and sliding window shades to create series of moving and transforming images that foreground the artist’s hand and the act of drawing, rather than employing digital manipulation. Drawing Papers 60 includes a DVD with excerpts of the animated works by all of the artists.
The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Drawing Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of drawing.
-Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manager
Open Sessions artist Irini Miga and art handler Ian Umlauf installing her work.
