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This group exhibition
brings together works on paper by four artists from across
the country with a shared sensibility for intimate process
and close observation.
In her landscape ink drawings, Tamar Miller
explores diffuse edges between darkness and light, form
and space, the shifting paradox of landscape and air. Mountain
or shadow? Smoke or tree? The world creates itself from
the dichotomy of substance and emptiness in her works. Tamar
currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
Kathranne Knight's graphite drawings are characterized
by repetition, accretion and time, with a focus on the tension
of finding pattern and meaning in a context of contingency.
Her most recent subject is the tree, as an overt reference
to human experience and feeling. There is often a polarity
present in the notions of presence and absence, straight
or curved line, dark and light. She currently lives and
works in Western Massachusetts.
The semi-abstract figures in Joshua Marsh's
work develop from a back-and-forth process of sculpting
a model and drawing from it. The lines and tones of graphite
determine the making of the sculptural subject as much as
the sculpture determines the drawing. In the end, it is
only the orchestration of marks on the page that remain,
with a sense of the solidity of matter and lightness of
line. He currently lives and works in West Chester, PA,
and teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
In Sarah Steinwachs' intimate paper constructions,
the mark is a removal, a subtractive process of cutting
away to make actual space. Begun with small scale graph
paper, her works echo the manifold grids of the urban environment
as they are formed. The act of making the work simultaneously
celebrates the human need for order and the unforeseen forces
that allow unexpected things to happen. The layered constructions
are informed by her experiences of the cities she has lived
in: Boston, New Haven, Rome, Tokyo, and Philadelphia, where
she currently lives and teaches at Drexel University.
The four artists in the exhibition first met
at Yale University, where they received their Masters of
Fine Arts together in 1997. DRAWING NEAR is the first gathering
of these artists since that time.
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