The Rejectionists
The Drawing Center, in collaboration with @pacegallery, is pleased to announce details of a special fall benefit exhibition, on view at Pace’s New York flagship from November 2 to 8. A curated project titled "The Rejectionists," the exhibition will be organized around the challenge presented by two 20th century masterpieces from
the collection of Arne and Milly Glimcher: a 1950 "Corps de dame" drawing by Jean Dubuffet and a 1961 drawing by Agnes Martin. More than 70 works in "The Rejectionists," save the Dubuffet and Martin, will be available for sale through an online silent auction hosted by The Drawing Center during the run of the exhibition. Proceeds will support The Drawing Center's programs, with participating artists receiving a percentage of the artwork sales.
Co-curated by The Drawing Center’s Executive Director, Laura Hoptman—with Claire Gilman, Chief Curator of The Drawing Center—and Pace CEO Marc Glimcher, "The Rejectionists" will be hung as a continuum, with the Dubuffet and the Martin as two poles—or brackets—for the rest of the works on view. In the most obvious sense, the Dubuffet and the Martin drawings are stylistic opposites: figurative versus abstract, expressionistic versus geometric and minimal. But, in fact, both artists shared a similar disdain for received ideas and the mainstream cultural discourse of their times. Their visions were distinct, but their attitudes were both squarely rejectionist, with Dubuffet cultivating a parallel career as a wine merchant and Martin famously advising her fellow artists to “paint with your back to the world.
Fundraising efforts will also include a ticketed cocktail party held on November 2 from 6–9 p.m. amid the exhibition on the seventh floor of Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery. Click here to learn more and purchase tickets: https://bit.ly/45ntL38
The Drawing Center's Gala 2023
Our 2023 Gala promises to be a memorable testament to The Drawing Center, celebrating Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and artist Shahzia Sikander, whose accomplishments and deep commitment to our chosen medium exemplify drawing’s necessity and unique significance in today’s world.
The Drawing Center’s Gala is the leading fundraiser in support of our organization. Funds generated through this event support our exhibitions, publications, public programs, and education initiatives, furthering our enduring mission to explore the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought.
This year's gala will take place on Wednesday, May 3 at The Lighthouse at Pier 61, Chelsea Piers, NYC.
Click the link to learn more and purchase tickets: https://bit.ly/3yFlmcA
Limited Editions Sale
Last week to save 25% on The Drawing Center's limited editions, including Walter Price's "Lawful Excuses" (2022). This edition of 30 unique hand-colored lithographs, printed with Derriere L' Etoile Studios in Long Island City, represents the New York-based artist's first foray into printmaking. Throughout his practice, Price aims to create exhilarating compositions that straddle the line between figuration and abstraction; this dynamic suite of prints is representative of the artist's graphic fluidity and sense of experimentation that encourages viewers to look and look again.
The Drawing Center's limited editions are generously donated by artists, and the sales of these works provide direct support for all that we do—from groundbreaking exhibitions and publications, to education and community initiatives.
Click the following link to save 25%: https://bit.ly/3Pz8JHJ
Now available for pre-order, the second volume of "Ways of Seeing" offers a comprehensive view of the three-part exhibition "Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection," which focuses on the extraordinary drawing collection of artist, curator, and President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Jack Shear. Taken together, the exhibition’s successive iterations—curated by Jack Shear, Arlene Shechet, and Jarrett Earnest, respectively—offer a revealing experiment in connoisseurship and exhibition-making.
The second volume of "Ways of Seeing" features extensive photographic documentation of all three iterations, thus providing the first opportunity to consider each installation in relation to the others. Essays by Shear, Shechet, and Earnest illuminate the curators' singular approaches to installing the collection, as well as offering reflections on their participation in this unique curatorial project. Taken together, the images and essays affirm the way in which context affects content when viewing works of art.
Tap the link in our bio to learn more and reserve your copy today.
Open Call for Applications! Drawing All-Stars is a free pre-professional program for high schoolers grades 9-11, led by Teen Art Salon in partnership with The Drawing Center. Focusing on New York City’s next generation of artists, the new program encourages teens to expand their drawing practices, amplify their artistic ambitions, and nurture their creative endeavors in a team setting.
Applications are due by Dec 23! To apply, please click the link in our bio.
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Image: Animation by Aneesa Razak, 2021.
@teenartsalon @beforehouses
"A year-end gift to The Drawing Center secures the continuation of more than forty years of drawing-centered programming that is unique, relevant, and provocative. Even a small contribution can make an enormous difference for us and the work that we do. There is no place like The Drawing Center. Your donation is a vote of confidence, an act of solidarity, and a lifeline for our institution, those who work here, and those whom we serve." — Laura Hoptman, The Drawing Center's Executive Director
To donate before year-end, please visit the link in our bio.
A new, expanded edition of the publication 'David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979' is now available for purchase!
This second edition features reproductions of the rarely-seen body prints that Hammons added from his personal collection to the exhibition during its final weeks. It also includes a conversation between curator and activist Linda Goode Bryant and artist Senga Nengudi, as well as a photo essay by photographer Bruce W. Talamon, who documented David Hammons at work in his Los Angeles studio in 1974.
The publication is the first publication to focus exclusively on Hammons's pivotal early works on paper in which he used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image making. Together, the body prints highlighted in this volume introduce the major themes of a fifty-year career that has become central to the history of postwar American art.
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To purchase ($28), please click the link in our bio.
Join us Wednesday, July 28 at 6pm EDT for artist presentations by Akum Maduka, Sahand Heshmati and Sophie Grant. As participants in Viewing Program 20/21, an initiative that supports contemporary artists, the three artists will present their drawings and discuss their unique practices, which explore themes including ethnic profiling in the United States, the body in relation to landscape, and cultural and religious stigmas in Nigeria.
To register (free), please click the link in our bio. @sahand_ha @sophiebgrant
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Images: Sophie Grant, Evergreen Horizon, 2020. Graphite, pigment stick and acrylic on canvas. 37 x 51 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Sahand Heshmati Afshar, Fingerprints, 2020. Charcoal on paper, 50 × 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Akum Maduka, Ripe Fruit, 2020. Charcoal, Graphite, Ink and pastel on paper, 9 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Watch a virtual walkthrough of 'Ebecho Muslimova: Scenes in the Sublevel' led by the artist and The Drawing Center's Assistant Curator Rosario Güiraldes. Click the link in our bio to watch the full walkthrough.
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Muslimova’s site-specific installation includes ten large-scale mixed-media drawings, which feature her exuberant and confident alterego Fatebe, a protoganist who finds herself in situations both comedic and comprising. The artist renders Fatebe’s experience of physical and mental space in a way that both demonstrates and counters her own self-consciousness and anxieties.
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Video by @orestionline
Today we continue to look back at our 2020 exhibitions including "Guo Fengyi: To See from a Distance," a presentation of thirty visionary drawings that demonstrate Guo's deeply personal and symbolically charged visual language that she derived from ancient Chinese wellness techniques, cosmology, philosophy, and mythology.
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To learn more, watch the full virtual walkthrough of the exhibition via the link in our bio!
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Video by Video by Oresti Tsonopoulos, @orestionline
As the year draws to a close, we are reflecting on our 2020 exhibitions, including "Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can't I Alter," a site-specific installation that explored ancestry, generational knowledge, and imaginative recollection. Santiago explains: "My work is my way of yelling to the ancestors and my past that ‘I have not forgotten you, I have not abandoned you and I am trying to find you!’”
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To hear Santiago speak more about his work, visit the link in our bio to watch the artist walk us through his exhibition "Can't I Alter." @talwst
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Video by Oresti Tsonopoulos, @orestionline
Season's greetings from The Drawing Center! Please note that Oour galleries will be closed Dec 25 - Jan 1. We reopen Saturday, Jan 2 at 12pm!
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Visit our current exhibition “100 Drawings from Now” before it closes on Jan 17. Schedule a visit via the link in our bio!
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