DRAWING CHALLENGE XIII
We are pleased to announce Yura Adams, Barbara Friedman, Dane Goodman, and Ilene Sunshine as the featured contestants of our Drawing Challenge XIII, which was inspired by "Faith - is the Pierless Bridge" (c. 1862 - 1864) by Emily Dickinson. We would like to thank the artist Carol Warner for submitting these lines.
Faith — is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not —
Too slender for the eye
It bears the Soul as bold
As it were rocked in Steel
With Arms of Steel at either side —
It joins — behind the Veil
To what, could We presume
The Bridge would cease to be
To Our far, vacillating Feet
A first Necessity.
Yura Adams, Transit, ink and acrylic on fabric, mylar and metal, 30 x 19 inches
Ilene Sunshine, BG 03, 2015, 19 x 18 inches, handmade cotton and abaca paper, plastic bag fragments, acrylic aerosol paint
“BG 03 is from a series of constructed drawings made with two layers of handmade paper: heavy cotton on bottom and a very thin sheet of translucent abaca on top; embedded between them are fragments of plastic bags. After this 'sandwich' of paper and plastic glyphs has been pressed and fully dried, I add aerosol paint often just a hint, sometimes several layers - and it is this delivery of colored particles via air that yields the drawing's resolution.”
- Ilene Sunshine, 2020
www.ilenesunshine.com
Barbara Friedman, Hard Rain, oil on linen, 62 x 84 inches
Dane Goodman, between here and there, gouache on paper, 8 x 5 inches
Blinn Jacobs, Pons pontis, 2011, ink, graphite on two sheets archival gridded vellum, 16 x 43 1/2 inches
Rebecca Clark, Last Deer Staring into the Great Tree Mandala of Oblivion, 2019-20, graphite, colored pencil, powdered pigment, and pastel on Kraft paper, triptych, overall: 12.5 x 30 inches
www.rebeccaclarkart.com
Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Bridges Across Emptiness, August 2020, pen and ink and collage on paper, 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches
www.ilseschreibernoll.com
Elisa Decker, Behind the Veil, 2014, archival pigment print, 13 x 9 3/4 inches
www.elisadecker.org/
Friederike Oeser, KURZREISEN 2, original screen print, paper size: 39 x 37 1/2 inches
www.friederike-oeser.de
Julie Shapiro, Thought, 2020, oil on canvas, 42 x 40 inches
www.julieshapiroart.com
Mary Flinn, Freedom, pastel and water color on rag paper, 9 x 11 inches
www.maryflinn.com
Matthew Bliss, it never has been new, copper, brass, solder, oil paint, sanded window glass
Anita Pantin, Grfito sobre piel, graphite on paper
www.anitapantin.com
Tony Moore, Seeker, 2020, 21 ½ x 17 ½ x 8 ¼ inches, wood-fired ceramic, copper green celadon, slip.
www.TonyMooreArt.com
Frances Hynes, Hand Print Series: Three Hands & a Barn, 1985, compressed charcoal, red chalk and pencil on Strathmore 100% cotton paper, 19 x 25 inches
Deanna Sirlin, Levels, 2020, acrylic on panel, 12 x 12 inches
www.deannasirlin.com
Gloria Fiero, The Pierless Bridge, 2020, acrylic, 16 x 20 inches
Marcy Rosenblat, Grey Veil, 2020, pigment and silica medium on canvas, 48 x 54 inches
www.marcyrosenblat.com
Alicia Rothman, Uninhabited, 2020, oil and hand-cut stencils on panel, 8 x 10 inches
www.aliciarothman.com