Drawing: Detroit

February 3 - March 16, 2024
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David Klein Gallery is pleased to present DRAWING, an exhibition of drawings by 21 contemporary artists. The list of artists includes Emmy Bright, Shea Burke, Cydney Camp, Susan Goethel Campbell, Jack Craig, Conrad Egyir, Whitfield Lovell, Kim McCarty, Armin Mersmann, Mary Ann Monforton, Marianna Olague, Joel Daniel Phillips, Benjamin Pritchard, Kelly Reemtsen, Jessica Rohrer, Tylonn J. Sawyer, Robert Schefman, Willie Wayne Smith, Neha Vedpathak, Charles Edward Williams, and Cayce Zavaglia. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 3rd, 5– 8 PM at David Klein Gallery Detroit.

 

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. -Paul Klee

 

The exhibition reveals a broad view of the practice of drawing by the twenty-one participating artists. There are multiple techniques at work here including large-scale charcoal drawings by Conrad Egyir and Tylonn Sawyer, a 3-D rendering of a very long line by Emmy Bright, Cayce Zavaglia’s embroidered portrait, life-like gouache drawings by Jessica Rohrer, a graphite composition by Willie Wayne Smith and Whitfield Lovell’s conte crayon drawing with an attached found object.
 
A drawing is the most intimate experience you can have with an artist’s work. From the artist’s eye to the hand and the paper, it’s an instinctive process. Because drawing is so immediate a spontaneity occurs that doesn’t always take place with painting or sculpture. As Roberta Smith observed, the possibilities are endless.
 
Drawing is really the best of all art mediums. Its history is long and encompassing, truly global, virtually unbounded…drawings bring us close to an artist’s thoughts, feelings and touch with an intimacy that sometimes seems metabolic.
-Roberta Smith
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