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16/6/2005

Two exhibitions

The Drawing Center, New York

SEVEN EMERGING ARTISTS TACKLE THE WALLS OF THE DRAWING CENTER

WalltoWall Drawing Selections Summer 2005

From June 18 to July 30, 2005, The Drawing Center will present sitespecific works by seven Drawing: Selections Summer 2005. This exhibition, selected from the Viewing Program, expands beyond twentiethcentury ideas of wall drawing. Rather than creating murals or using the wall as a supercanvas, these artists delve into the function of the wall and its symbolic value. Whether making subtle graphite marks, bold drywall cutouts, huge gestural lines, or digital media projections, all of the artists play with ideas of illusionism, transparency, depth, and materiality of the wall as it both supports and becomes their artwork. Through diverse approaches, the artists in WalltoWall Drawing deconstruct the surface of the museum wall and develop complex relationships between the wall and the message of their work.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Charbel Ackermann (London, UK and San Francisco, CA) uses the wall as an ephemeral support for a pseudodidactic PowerPoint presentation on The Axis of Evil. Ackermann s drawings, maps, and text will be projected onto the wall to explain the axioms of what he calls "the new geometry" of global political relationships.

Avantika Bawa (Savannah, GA) creates large abstract shapes drawn directly on the wall and extending into the space of the gallery to hint at the architecture and infrastructure that is hidden behind the wall. Bawa s wall drawings are shadowy echoes of the interior forms, suggesting a ghostlike appearance of unseen rooms through the wall.

Rosana Castrillo Diaz (San Francisco, CA) uses a bare minimum of graphite lines on the wall to carefully render the edges, spines, and bindings of books and to redefine the wall as an ethereal space of knowledge in an inaccessible library.

Shoshana Dentz (Brooklyn, NY) creates largescale fences with strong angular lines and dramatic perspective to enclose and confront the viewer physically and psychologically. Dentz s drawing emphasizes the wall s function both as a support structure and a boundary.

Sun K. Kwak (New York, NY) reacts to the energy of a space by articulating it with a large expressive gesture. Reinterpreting the building of The Drawing Center as a living creature, Kwak will cover the wall and floor in flowing and dynamic lines that suggest an architectural nervous system.

Mark Licari (Los Angeles, CA) is a storyteller whose private mythologies comprise hybrids of animals, machinery, technology and vegetables that invade the walls of the space and creep around the existing architecture. Licari s drawing will occupy the back wall of the gallery, wrap around a few of the central columns, and invade unlikely niches of the gallery.

Chris Sauter (San Antonio, TX) cuts out fragments of the wall to construct sculptural works immediately in front of the wall. Sauter will remove discshaped pieces from the wall to create a telescope that aims back at the wall to study its newly created "cosmos".

Artist s Talk: Saturday, June 18, 5 pm

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KERAMEA S MINDBENDING DRAWINGS ENGAGE VIEWERS IN PERCEPTUAL PARADOXES

Zoe Keramea: Geometry of Paradox

From June 18 to July 30, 2005, The Drawing Center s Drawing Room will feature New Yorkbased contemporary artist Zoe Keramea in the exhibition Geometry of Paradox. The engaging and mindbending work of Zoe Keramea uses drawing and paper constructions to explore the visual paradoxes of illusionistic space. Through surprisingly simple motifs such as geometric shapes, tangled lines, and threedimensional folded paper forms, Keramea's work challenges viewers perceptions of spatial relationships.

For several decades Keramea has created inventive works on and with paper that reflect a sense of delight in perceptual conundrums. With a reduced palette and spare graphic tools, her drawings and three dimensional works push illusionistic devices to an extreme, superceding a logical understanding of physical space.

Geometry of Paradox will feature Keramea s playful largescale drawings, artist s books, "zoetype" prints (created through a unique process developed by the artist), and threedimensional paper sculptures. Her folded paper constructions reference malleable forms such as the Ouroboros, the mythological serpent devouring its own tail in this case, as he dives through the gallery wall (Sea Serpent, 2005) and the hexahedron, repeated along a twisting plane (Spikey Moebius and Folded Flexible Plane, 2005). Keramea subtly alters the space of the gallery with Circumference (1997), her 33 foot long horizontal scroll that outlines the arc of a circle, drawn in shallow perspective, to hint at a perimeter curving around the viewer. By suggesting spatial relationships that can only exist in the mind, Keramea provokes viewers to engage in active seeing rather than passive looking.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zoe Keramea was born in Athens, Greece in 1955 and attended art school in Athens and Berlin. After her postgraduate studies, Keramea established her own printmaking studio in Athens. In 1989, Keramea received a Fulbright grant to develop her zoetype printmaking projects. Keramea s work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Greece and Germany, and in the group exhibition Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century at the Queens Museum of Art, New York (1999) and the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2000). She currently lives and works in New York City.

Artist s Talk: Saturday, June 25, 5 pm

Image: Zoe Keramea, December152 blocks (detail), 2004. Graphite on paper leporello, 5.5 x 105.5 in.

Opening Reception Friday, June 17, 6 8 pm

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M., and Saturday 11:00 A.M.–6:00 P.M.
Holiday closings: The Drawing Center will be closed November 25–26 and December 24, 2004–January 1, 2005

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