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4/11/2004

Two exhibitions

The Drawing Center, New York

Richard Tuttle: It's a Room for 3 People
November 6, 2004 – February 26, 2005

Contemporary American artist Richard Tuttle will array a body of new work that expands the traditional boundaries of drawing. It’s a Room for 3 People will be the first of two exhibitions of Tuttle’s work this season at The Drawing Center; the second exhibition will open in the Drawing Room on February 5, 2005.

The Drawing Center will present Richard Tuttle: It s a Room for 3 People, an exhibition of never-before-seen work by the contemporary American artist. This will be the first of two exhibitions of Tuttle s work this season at The Drawing Center, with the second exhibition opening in the Drawing Room in February 2005. Specifically for this unique, back-to-back presentation, Tuttle has created new work that challenges the preconceived limits of the drawing medium. The Drawing Center s exhibitions will also highlight the artist s incredible and unexpected melding of form, color, and materials.

Throughout his impressive 40-year career, Tuttle has revolutionized drawing on his own terms. Tuttle s drawings break free from the conventional constraints of the medium, and The Drawing Center s exhibitions will be an opportunity for audiences to reconsider his entire oeuvre as an interrogation of the paradigms of drawing. Tuttle s work reflects an emphasis on seeing, rather than analyzing, and elicits an emotional and poetic response. For his exhibitions at The Drawing Center, the artist examines the qualities as well as the failures of drawing. In the main gallery, Tuttle will array five clusters of work what he terms villages comprised of both wall-mounted works and three-dimensional pieces. In all media, Tuttle s pieces are characterized by a certain simplicity and a complete unification of picture and environment. This exhibition will also bring attention to Tuttle s extraordinary manipulation of the organic properties of a surprising variety and combination of materials, including traditional drawing media, such as graphite, watercolor, charcoal, colored pencil, and gouache, as well as non-traditional media, such as plywood, string, cardboard, cloth, sawdust, glitter, and Styrofoam.

NEW LIMITED EDITION BOOK NOW AVAILABLE
Richard Tuttle, Color as Language, 2004
Color as Language is a wonderful limited edition artist's book published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's two exhibitions of new work by Richard Tuttle. In this artist's book, Tuttle explores two-dimensional and three-dimensional line through handmade paper folded accordion-style, with a thin thread sewn in and out of the folds. Tuttle's signature extends into a freeform drawing that is unique to each book.
More information on the limited edition book Color as Language by Richard Tuttle.
The book may also be viewed at The Drawing Center during gallery hours.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 5, 2004, 6–8 pm

Image: Richard Tuttle, Village II, No. II, 5, 2003
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In the Drawing Room
Field of Color: Tantra Drawings from India
November 6 – January 22, 2005

Tantric drawings from Rajasthan in northeastern India feature beautiful symbolic and geometric images created to aid in meditation. The works in this exhibition were made in the last decade and are descendents of a 400-year long tradition in the practice of Hindu Tantrism.

In the Drawing Room, The Drawing Center will present Field of Color: Tantra Drawings from India, introducing audiences to the beauty of Tantric drawings from Northeastern India. Created and re-created over centuries in the tradition of Hindu Tantrism a small branch of Hinduism these symbolic works are meant to aid in meditation. This exhibition will present 30 small-scale works on paper from the last decade from the collection of poet Franck Andr Jamme.

Primarily created today in the state of Rajasthan, Tantra drawings are based on illustrations first known to have appeared in seventeenth century treatises on Tantrism, called tantras. The images were copied by subsequent generations and eventually became independent of the texts. Repeated handling of these works required the creation of new versions, including the drawings in this exhibition, which are the descendents of a tradition dating back at least 400 years.

In the practice of Hindu Tantrism, the observer strives to de-condition one s being and achieve transcendence. Active meditation on Tantra images complements the main focus of the religious practice: the recitation of mantras. Made for personal use in the home, Tantra drawings are created anonymously by tantrikas, men and women who are themselves followers of Tantrism. Painted in gouache, watercolor, or tempera, contemporary examples of Tantra drawings are often made at home; from time to time they are made secretly in studios that produce paintings in the traditional miniature style of the region.

Of particular importance in Tantra drawings are the colors, which reflect the highly symbolic worldview of Hindu Tantrism. Much more than abstract graphics, the drawings have the power of enlightenment and revelation. Tantra images represent sources of energy that expand, contract, and gather together in the creation of all forms and processes. The tantrika animates the image through focus and visualization, and the composition of specific colors and shapes facilitates perception of forces present in various phenomena and states of being.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 5, 2004, 6–8 pm

PUBLIC PROGRAM Franck Andr Jamme will lead a free gallery talk on the exhibition on Saturday, November 13, at 4 P.M.

PUBLICATION Accompanying the exhibition will be a 12-page issue of the Drawing Papers, number 50 in a series of publications devoted to drawing. Drawing Papers 50 will include an essay by Franck Andr Jamme and eight images of works in the exhibition. It will be on sale at The Drawing Center for $10

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