"Drawing in the Present Tense"
1999-10-13 until 1999-12-03
Parsons Exhition Center
New York, NY, USA United States of America

Exhibition of drawings by 40 artists, among them, Dennis Adams, Jake Berthot, Frances Barth, Nayland Blake, Nancy Brett, Jackie Brookner, Richmond Burton, Tom Butter, Brian Connley, Petah Coyne, Stuart Diamond, Judite dos Santos, Glenn Goldberg, Regina Granne, Holly Hughes, David Humphrey,Alfredo Jaar, Byron Kim, Al Leslie, Glenn Lignon, Lenore Malen, Mary Miss, Peter Nadin, Saul Ostrow, Esther Podemski, Rona Pondick, Don Porcaro,Faith Ringgold, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Ryman, Mira Schor, Sean Scully, Amy Sillman, Joan Snyder, Elke Solomon, Jessica Stockholder, Richard Tuttle, Richard Van Buren, Mary Weatherford, and Philemena Williamson.

This show is based on a series of simple observations about the drawing process. The creative process itself often has its origins in drawing. In this view, drawing comes about from a succession of traces, impulses and sensations that form an enduring diary for the artist.

The curators have developed this theme in as many ways as possible, showing a range of methods and subjects, in an attempt to capture the unrehearsed and improvised spirit of drawing – a medium that encourages the artist to invent, to play and to see. This exhibition presents drawing as an inventory of ideas and forms that are made unselfconsciously; somehow intimate, subtle, mutable and contingent. The curators are taking the positions that drawing can be the start of the arduous process of discovery

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