DRAWING CHALLENGE XVI
We are pleased to announce Robin Feld, Laurie Heller Marcus, Gerhard Lang, Jane Sangerman, and Julie Shapiro as the featured contestants of our Drawing Challenge XVI, which was inspired by the following excerpt from "Notes to the Future" by Patti Smith.
Now my children
You must overturn the tables
Deliver the future from material rule
For only one rule should be considered
The eleventh commandment
To love one another
And this is our covenant across your wrist
Robin Feld, Yellow Triangles, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
"The piece felt incomplete and not 100% alive until it came to me to introduce the yellow line...which happily activated the rest of the piece and became a force field spreading light and positive energy across this painted universe.”
- Robin Feld, 2020
www.robinfeldstudio.com
Julie Shapiro, Reconvene, 2020, graphite, colored pencil, acrylgouache on collaged monoprints, 24 x 23 inches
Gerhard Lang, The Process of Seeing Clouds, the village of Herrischried, Black Forest, Germany, 21 July 2020, Visus Signatus drawing method, pastel on paper, 63 x 91 inches
“Never looking at the paper, I stand on a hillside and draw, looking only upwards.”
- Gerhard Lang, 2020
www.gerhardlang.com
Jane Sangerman, Triune I D94, 2019, 12 x 9 inches, mixed media on panel
”My work calls attention to materiality. I think about my physical world — the urban landscape that I encounter every day, and particularly look at walls and the shapes made from the aging, peeling surfaces. I take these forms and squeeze from them the human-imbued energy, leaving matter behind and setting it free. What remains? A celebration of the shared human experience.”
- Jane Sangerman, 2020
www.janesangerman.com
Laurie Heller Marcus, PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS (i was just thinking of you), 2020, shellac ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches
Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, Little Sister I, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
www.lisahesselgrave.com
Friederike Oeser, From the New York New York Series: 99 Gansevoort Street, Original silkscreen on canvas, single work, 55 x 78 7/10 inches
www.friederike-oeser.de
Gloria Fiero, In the Pink, 2020, acrylic, 24 x 24 inches
Helen Oji, Group Chat #1, 2020, acrylic on paper, 4 x 6 inches
www.helenoji.com
Susan Sharp, Linear Journeys, (diptych), mixed media on Denril, 60 x 96 inches
Ute Hoffritz, “Beschwörung" (Evocation), 2014, bronze, edition 1/7, 7 x 16 x 15 cm
www.ute-hoffritz.de
Amy Bassin, Delivery Run
www.amybassin.com
Tony Moore, Passage, 2020, wood-fired ceramic, 21 x 18 3/4 x 9 inches
www.TonyMooreArt.com
Dee Shapiro, Destination Spaces, 2018, mixed media on panel, 30 x 40 inches
Suejin Jo, FFat Love, 2020, 16 x 16 inches
www.suejinjo.com
Dino Blanche, He Who Knows My Heart Also Knows Yours, 2020, pencil on paper, 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches
www.yellowfinearts.com/dino-blanche
”Working on this piece, drawing for 300 hours, and listening to the whispers of my heart, it dawned on me that our hearts are transparent to those who truly know their own heart. There is no hiding the truth. Deception goes hand in hand with corruption. I reckon with my truth through drawing. In "Notes to the Future" the author says "deliver the future from material rule" and that "only one rule should be considered". Which is what Jesus commanded to Love one another. My drawing is about the X-ray vision of love, the ability to see beyond the surface to the heart of what matters. The Love in all creation, apparent in the mortal veins "across your wrist".”
Joan Mellon, Quiet Afternoon, 2020, tracing paper, vellum, graphite, and Japanese tape, 12 x 9 inches
www.joanmellon.com
"The simplicity of my work is something I get to, not something I begin with. The minimal appearance of each piece belies its feeling of intimacy with which it was made."
Iris Kufert-Rivo, Exit, 2020, oil and acrylic on linen, 44 x 60 inches
www.ikrstudio.com
Susan Mastrangelo, Dreams, 24 x 30 inches
www.susanmastrangelo.com
”To begin each piece, I draw with the line of the cord, and then add paint, and fabric. The wave or spiral of the cord moves to an inner beat. This approach allows me to be in sync with a natural flow and rhythm, while leaving me open to surprises, constant inspiration, and endless possibilities.”
John McDevitt King, March/April, 2020, Diptych, encaustic on monoprint on paper, mounted on panel, each: 14 x 11 x 2 inches
www.johnmcdevittking.com
Alice Zinnes, Light of The Dark, oil on canvas, 42 x 52 inches
www.AliceZinnes.com
Leo Löhr, Genever Drinker, 2020, pencil and acrylic on wood, 16 1/2 x 23 3/5 inches
www.flying-leo.de
Nancy Berlin, Disruption 2, 2020, mixed media on panel, 16 x 20 inches
Stephanie Franks, Blue Note, 2019, collage, 4 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches
www.stephaniefranks.net
Nancy Azara, Crow and Sandal 8, mixed media with mylar and paper, 22 x 30 inches
www.nancyazara.com
Blinn Jacobs, Tie Rod, 2016, curling ribbon between two sheets of Lexan suspended with clear filament, 48 x 48 inches
www.blinnjacobs.com
Lee Tribe, Sculpture I Will Never Make: Alexander, 2020, charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 inches
Kristin Osgood Lamelas, Mandala_01, ink on Yupo, 11 x 14 inches
www.kristinosgood.com
Nancy Manter, When It Pours #10, 2020, Flashe Paint on Yupo, 13 x 10 inches
www.nancymanter.com
”My work has always been influenced by natural phenomena such as radically changing atmosphere, tides and geological surfaces (both above and below the waterline), plate tectonics and Landsat images. Weather and extreme variation in geology were all consuming, I continue to use these powerful images as metaphors for the human experience in a precarious and ever-changing world.”
Sara Sutro, Study for Gathering, 2020, pencil on paper, 8 x 10 inches
www.sarahsutro.com
Carol Radsprecher, In a Green Lonely, photoshop drawing, 11 x 14 inches
Jeanne Wilkinson, Hand Over Hand, digital compilation
www.jeannewilkinson.com/
”One night I was inspired to take two photographs of my hand stretching toward the ceiling, and out of these I made a series of images that I call "Hand Over Hand." Using various digital processes I created this collage of overlapping, touching, merging hands that seems appropriate for our current time as we reach into an unknown future, searching, seeking something beautiful and true. I have been seeing Patti Smith online often lately, singing, talking, laughing, her face as it ages so beautiful and true - I find in my own image a way to honor her words.”