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The Pencil of Nature
Amy Adler, Alice Attie, Zeke Berman, Sebastiaan Bremer, Marco Breuer,
Vija Celmins, Justin Francavilla,
Sally Gall, David Goldes, Christine Hiebert, Royce Howes, Soo Kim, Maria
Marinez-Cañas, Rob Matthews,
Robert McCann, Vik Muniz, Nic Nicosia, Tokihiro Sato, Joseph Stashkevetch,
Evelyn Rydz, Phil Whitman, Brian Wood
July 1-August 20, 2010
opening reception: Thursday, July 8, 6 to 8 p.m.
gallery hours, July/August: Tuesday-Friday, 10 to 6 p.m.
The Pencil of Nature is a group exhibition exploring the
dialogue between drawings and photographs. The title of this show is borrowed
from the first illustrated book of commercial photographs which Fox Talbot
published between 1844-1846. One of the inventors of photography, he was
motivated by way of his lack of skill in sketching. However, in the context
of this group show, "the pencil of nature" alludes to the symbiotic relationship
between photography and drawing in current practice.
As far back as the 1840s, painters used photographic studies as an aid.
Many painters such as Corot and Degas have made their own photographs
for use as studies as well as independent works. However, in the 150 years
that have passed since the invention of photography, and with digital
technology monopolizing the field, there seems to be a look back at the
play between works on paper and photography. Certainly Rauschenberg can
be seen as the patron saint of this vision, particularly with his use
of manipulative techniques which form a hybrid of photography, drawing
and printmaking. By singling out individual artists with unique visions
who are all in some way straddling the media, it is hoped that we will
have a new awareness of this historic alliance.
This show brings together artists who are fully aware of the history and
uses of reproduction and graphic representation and work with them in
a variety of innovative ways. Several of the graphic artists employ highly
realistic imagery that is thoroughly based in photography, as seen in
the drawings of Joseph Stashkevetch and Rob Matthews
and Vija Celmins. In a sense, they are using the photograph in
much of the same way as the 19th century painters. But today, with photographs
readily accepted as an independent and valued medium there must be other
reasons for these choices. In the case of Amy Adler, the artist
mediates between mechanical and graphic reproduction in a theoretical
way. Matthews makes subtle changes in the photographic imagery. In all
cases, the carrying out of a detailed representation of a photograph,
whether in a minute or grand scale, meditates on the abstract qualities
of any depiction. Not surprisingly, most of these graphic works are in
black and white, adding another level of abstraction.
Alice Attie, Brian Wood, Sebastiaan Bremer and Royce
Howes actually combine media together into an integrated image using
the photography as the matrix. Because the photograph represents objects
in the world, the presence of sculpture is always implied and becomes
the third medium in the dialogue. In Vik Muniz's "For the Good
Times" he uses the literal and photographic representation of rubber tubing
to create a linear drawing. David Goldes recreates a drawing by
Picasso in three dimensions using wire netting and then compresses it
back into two dimensions by photographing it. Zeke Berman has historically
woven together drawing and sculptural renderings recorded photographically,
while Nic Nicosia illustrates the pictorial space as "an arena
in which to act" through photographically depicting himself making a large
action drawing. Abstraction as found in nature and in the materials of
photography is explored photographically by Robert McCann and Marco
Breuer, while Christine Hiebert suggests the transparency of
film by sweeping a brayer across her gestural drawings.
Links to artist statements
Alice Attie
Sebastiaan
Bremmer
Marco Breuer
Royce Howes
Rob Matthews
Nic Nicosia
Joseph
Stashkevetch
Phil Whitman
THE PENCIL OF NATURE
STORYVILLE PORTRAITS
JULY 1 - AUGUST 20, 2010
Entrance:
Joseph Stashkevetch
Brown Birds/June Sky, 2009
Conte-crayon on rag paper
50 x 50”
Main Gallery
East wall:
Soo Kim
Untitled (Gold woods), 2008
hand-cut chromogenic print, acrylic
26 x 26”
Tokihiro Sato
#349 Kashimagawa, 1998
black and white transparency over light panel
39 x 48”
edition 1/12
Sally Gall
Web #4, 2009
gelatin silver print
18 x 18"
edition of 20
North Wall:
David Goldes
Mesh Objects (after Picasso), 2005
gelatin silver print
24 x 20"
edition 6/15
Vik Muniz
For the Good Times, 1989
two gelatin silver prints, rubber, wood frame
20 x 16”
Evelyn Rydz
Drifting Island # 2, 2009
pencil, color pencil and acrylic
on two sheets of duralar
30 x 40”
Sebastiaan Bremer
Schoener Goetterfunken VIIIB, "Above the Starry Canopy"
(Droben Ueber'm Sternenzelf), 2010
acrylic and inks on c print
10 x 10”
Zeke Berman
Cans Triptych, 1993
gelatin silver print
16 x 20”
edition 3/25
Robert McCann
Head, 2000
gelatin silver print
24 x 20”
edition 4/9
Robert McCann
Back, 2000
silver gelatin print
24 x 20”
edition 4/9
Christine Hiebert
Untitled (rd.08.60), 2008
water-based etching ink,
charcoal, graphite on Lenox paper
26 x 44"
Brian Wood
Bush's Toys, 2007
ink and photo on mylar
9 1/4 x 12 1/4”
Brian Wood
Crossings, 2004
ink and photo on mylar
13 x 9 1/2”
West wall:
Alice Attie
Requiem, Iraq, 2010
laser rendition of newsprint and ink
22 x 30”
Nic Nicosia
Untitled (drawing) #14, 2007
inkjet on Somerset Velvet Watercolor paper
33 x 48”
edition 1/7
Marco Breuer
Motion (C-890), 2009
chromogenic print, exposed
13 11/16 x 10 5/16”
Marco Breuer
Untitled (C-798), 2008
chromogenic print, scratched
15 7/8 x 12 1/2”
Justin Francavilla
Stomp, 2006
ink on paper
22 x 30”
Rob Matthews
Rebecca, 2008
graphite on paper
7” diameter on 9 x 9” paper
Rob Matthews
Self-Portrait with Nosebleed, 2009
graphite on paper
7” diameter on 9 x 9” paper
Rob Matthews
The Word Made Flesh Made Graphite (Ann), 2007
graphite on paper
7” diameter on 9 x 9” paper
Amy Adler
Shower Scene (Monster), 2008
oil pastel on canvas
24 x 20”
Vija Celmins
Web #5, 2009
Mezzotint on Hahnemuhle paper
10 x 12” image, 20 7/8 x 17 1/2” sheet
edition of 50, 3/30 AP
Signed LR beneath image: V Celmins
Phil Whitman
Don and Jim in Devil's Den, Gettysburg, 2010
graphite and wax on paper
14 x 10 1/2”
Maria Martinez-Cañas
Tracing Series: Untitled [Eakins], 2007
pigment print on canvas
40 x 54”
Royce Howes
Untitled (leviathan), 2009
newspaper photo collage
4 1/4 x 4 1/4”
Royce Howes
Untitled (soldier), 2009
newspaper photo collage
4 x 5 3/4”
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Joseph Stashkevetch
Soo Kim
Tokihiro Sato
Sally Gall
David Goldes
Vik Muniz
Evelyn Rydz
Sebastiaan Bremer
Zeke Berman
Christine Hiebert
Brian Wood
Brian Wood
Alice Attie
Nic Nicosia
Marco Breuer
Marco Breuer
Justin Francavilla
Rob Matthews
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Rob Matthews
Vija Celmins
Phil Whitman
Maria Martinez-Canas
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Royce Howes
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