"Where Do You Draw the Line?"
Group Drawing Show

The Creiger-Dane Gallery will be showing the work of Richard Bertman, David Campbell, Adrian Carroll, Meredith Eppel, Phyllis Ewen, Ana Guerra, Ric Haynes, Ulick Mahoney, John Powell, Linda Price Sneddon, Steven Trefonides, and possibly more, from June 29 through August 12. We will have a reception for the artists on Friday, July 7, 6 to 8 pm. Gallery hours are 10 am to 5:30 pm, Tuesday through Saturday, or by appointment.

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The Webster Dictionary defines drawing as "The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades." This act describes the most basic and fundamental of all traditional artistic processes available to the visual artist. Possessing an immediacy of touch and potential for revision, drawing lies at the root of work made by an artist in any media, and has been utilized since the first prehistoric man felt inspired to make marks on a cave wall.(1)

Traditionally, drawing was used to develop an artist's eyes and skill, or as a practice step en route to a final work. In the twentieth century, however, drawing has come to be viewed as an independent medium that can stand on its own. Furthermore, in conjunction with modernism's bent towards flatness and abstraction, and today's artists' propensity for experimenting with a vast array of materials, it is apparent that the term "drawing" itself is not only in constant flux but at times even meaningless.(2)

"Where Do You Draw the Line?" will attempt to give a bit of an overview of some of the trends in drawing today. Works will span from traditional, classically inspired realist drawings by artists like Steven Trefonides, David Campbell and Ric Haynes, to works that cross into other media and push the envelope of the term drawing. Ana Guerra uses "fire drawing" to describe the soot marks she makes on paper using a candle flame. Richard Bertman and John Powell both make drawings in space, Bertman using wire and Powell using light. Linda Price Sneddon employs a variety of materials including cotton balls, pins and hair to create drawings directly on the gallery wall. Other artists, like Adrian Carroll and Ulick Mahoney, have works that represent a more modernist approach to art by relying on pattern and repetition. Finally, works by Phyllis Ewen employ latex and natural found materials, while Meredith Eppel uses light coming through a window to heighten the colors and marks in her abstract pastel pieces.

1. James N. Wood and Douglas Druick in Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, Hudson Hills Press, NY, 1999, p. VI.

2. Ibid.

If you are interested in any of these works, feel free to e-mail geeta@creiger-dane.com.

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