James Drake
dal 9/6/2014 al 20/9/2014
Segnalato da
9/6/2014
James Drake
The Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown - MCASD, San Diego
Anatomy of Drawing and Space (Brain Trash). Drake committed himself to drawing every day for the past two years. The resulting 1,242 drawings cull from his personal reservoir of images formed during his forty-year career.
San Diego, CA—On Thursday, July 10, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will present James Drake: Anatomy of Drawing and Space (Brain Trash) at its downtown location. The exhibition will remain on view through September 21, 2014.
James Drake committed himself to drawing every day for the past two years. The resulting 1,242 drawings cull from his personal reservoir of images formed during his forty-year career. Each work will be pinned directly to the walls of the three major galleries at MCASD’s downtown location, covering surfaces from floor to ceiling. Drake’s drawings, and resulting installation, serve as an echo of the artist’s studio and mind played out on epic scale.
Fluttering free at the bottom edge, each composition— rendered in pencil, inks and charcoal often with collage and stencil work—conveys an immediacy and intimacy. Composed in ten “chapters,” the works are installed wall after wall, room after room. Imagery may be contained within a single sheet or expand across multiple pages, creating a composition that is both singular and expansive. Confident and enigmatic, the installation asserts itself and fully occupies its architectural space, even as it makes way for intimate viewing experiences.
These lyrical, classically tinged drawings may surprise those familiar with Drake’s rugged sculptures and photographs which evoke social constructs and animal instincts. Yet, close consideration of the expansive grid, reveals a layering of Drake’s enduring themes of order and chaos, life and death, and legacy and innovation; as well as his signature images of wild animals, scientific formulas, personal portraits, and art historical figures.
Following its San Diego debut, James Drake: Anatomy of Drawing and Space (Brain Trash) will travel to the Blanton Museum of Art on the University of Texas in Austin, Texas from October 19, 2014 to January 4, 2015, and will then travel to flexibly feature all ten or selected, sequential chapters. At its fullest, the installation exceeds the length of a football field. At its smallest, a single chapter can occupy a twenty-foot wall. The show is accompanied by an artist book with scale reproductions of all 1242 drawings, and new writing by physicist David C. Krakauer, renowned for his transdisciplinary approach to the studies of systems.
James Drake was born in Lubbock Texas in 1946, and received his MFA from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of more than 30 museums. He has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions and included in important group shows. Drake lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For interviews with James Drake and high resolution imagery, please contact Communications & Marketing Manager Leah Straub, or Communications Associate Patricia B. Dwyer.
James Drake: Anatomy of Drawing and Space (Brain Trash) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and is made possible by generous lead underwriting support from Tami and Michael Lang. Additional funding has been received from Stephen Feinberg and proceeds from the 2014 Art Auction. Institutional support for MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
Image: James Drake, James Drake's Studio, 2014. Image courtesy of the artist.
Leah Straub, Communications & Marketing Manager, 858 454 3541 x119, lstraub@mcasd.org
Patricia B. Dwyer, Communications Associate, 858 454 3541 x116, pdwyer@mcasd.org
Related Programs
Thursday Night Thing (TNT) > Thursday, July 10, 2014 > 7-10 PM > Downtown
Celebrate the opening James Drake: Anatomy of Drawing and Space (Brain Trash) at this signature art + music mash-up event. Dive deeper into the art with tours, art-making activities, live music on the plaza, tasty cocktails, and delicious bites. This program is free for Members, $8 for students and seniors, and $10 for non-members. Support for TNT is provided by Car2Go with in-kind support from Stone Brewing Company and 619 Vodka.
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