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5/5/2006

Two exhibitions

The Drawing Center, New York

Drawings

From May 6 to July 15, The Drawing Center will present Eva Hesse Drawing, the first exhibition in over 20 years to focus on the critical role of drawing in the achievements of Eva Hesse (1936-1970), one of the most influential artists of the postwar era. Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, and The Menil Collection, Houston, the exhibition will illuminate the complex and rich crossover between drawing and sculpture in Hesse’s work. The exhibition will be a rare opportunity to view 150 of Hesse’s fascinating works on paper and is significant as the first public presentation in New York of the sketchbooks, working notes, and diaries, which she kept from the mid-1960s to the end of her life. Eva Hesse Drawing is co-curated by Catherine de Zegher and Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Eva Hesse Drawing will feature some of the artist’s finest drawings alongside a critical selection of sculptures that reflect the artist’s investigations into translating the drawn line into three-dimensional space. By juxtaposing Hesse’s drawings and sculptures, the exhibition presents an exciting revision of the conventional interpretation of the working processes of this groundbreaking artist.

Eva Hesse Drawing begins with early collages, ink washes, and gouaches from 1960 to 1964 that engage many thematic paradoxes, from biomorphic and geometric abstraction to a mix of organic and inorganic forms. In 1964 and 1965, working in semi-rural isolation in Essen, Germany, Hesse produced a series of drawings in which she delineated contours of interconnected tubes and planes with a controlled line that was at once both gestural and mechanical. This new engagement with the line opened a period of growing confidence and independence. After Hesse’s return to New York in September 1965, Hesse’s work challenged the geometric regularity and rigidity prevalent in art at the time. She explored ideas such as transience, chance, and difference in her “grid" drawings

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Dancer/Mirror The Drawing Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by New York artist Stephen Posen to open in its Drawing Room May 6. Posen's ambitious new drawing installation will explore scale, color, and the quality of line, engaging the walls, ceiling, and floor of the space, as well as the street outside it, with a circular trace of movement that has spatial, metaphorical, and poetic resonances. The title Dancer/Mirror refers to the relationships between movement and stasis, gesture and structure, and artist and viewer. Assembling individual drawings in small groupings, Posen will push his own conventions to bold conclusions, with drawings on all six surfaces of the room seeming to float, becoming alternately transparent and concrete. The entire space will thus be shaped and bent to expressive purposes, generating a sense of celebration, fluidity, and vibrant play between containment and expansion.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Stephen Posen was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA from Yale. Posen’s drawings and paintings were featured in the 1972 Whitney Biennial and Documenta V (1972) and in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University Art Gallery. The artist’s work is represented in numerous public and private collections.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 5, 6-8 pm

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street 212 - New York
Hours:Tuesday-Friday, 10 A.M.- 6 P.M. Saturday 11 A.M.- 6 P.M.

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