DRAWING CHALLENGE XXI
We would like to congratulate Tamara Krendel, Gerri Rachins and Andra Samelson for being the featured contestants of our Drawing Challenge XXI, which was inspired by the below listed words of
Kōbō Abe (1924 - 1993), cited from his novel The Face of Another (1964).
“Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty.”
We are pleased to present a larger selection of submissions in the accompanying virtual exhibition
the one who best understands the significance of light
May 5 - May 31, 2021
Leslie Kerby, Back to Nature, 2021, trace monotype drawing with chine collé, 30 x 40 inches
Gerri Rachins, Unfamiliar Creature 0360, 2017, Flashe and ink on Saunders Waterford paper, 30 x 22 inches
“This painting is part of a series of nine works on paper entitled “Unfamiliar Creatures” completed during the summer of 2017. The process of creating this work was unusual for me. I would travel to a Cape Cod beach with blank pieces of watercolor paper. After inserting each piece of paper into the water, I grasped all of the surrounding seaweed and brought it back upon the beach sand with the wet paper. Then I painted the actual seaweed with ink and used it to print images on the paper. The printed images reside in the background of the painting. Upon returning to my studio, I would create an appropriate hue of blue ink, and then seek out a larger shape from the seaweed palimpsest to paint with black Flashe.”
- Gerri Rachins, 2021
www.gerrirachins.com
Sam Marroquin, Leaving the Skeletons Behind, 2020, acrylic, charcoal, paper, mesh, image transfers and metal collage on paper, 24 by 36 inches
Andra Samelson, Big Bangs 1, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Tamara Krendel, Bird Tree & Moon, 2021, watercolor on clayboard, 24 x 18 inches
Suejin Jo, Thinking of Virginia Woolf, 2021, 28 x 37
Yvette Cohen, Under Cover, acrylic and wooden dowels on shaped canvas, 13 1/2 X 15 inches
”Undercover evolved as I searched for geometric pieces to challenge the volumes in my Juggling Rocks series. The painting mounts flat on the wall without a frame, so that it easily integrates itself on the wall, seemingly opening up space beyond the tangible wall. With acrylic paint, I painted and repainted, marks and colors on my shaped canvas. I then applied wood dowels following a precise geometric shape I had designed. I painted more and even collaged a piece, to simultaneously contradict and balance the under painting.”
- Yvette Cohen, 2021
www.yvettecohen.com
Nancy Berlin, What did I see?, 2018, mixed media on paper on wood panel, 16 x 20 inches
Theresa DeSalvio, Nightfall, 4/2021, oil paint on Arches paper, 13 x 20 inches
”’Nightfall’ captures the moment between day and night, before the jewel tones fade into darkness.”
-Theresa DeSalvio, 2021
www.theresadesalvio.com
Mark Rosenthal, Swoosh, 2020, oil on wood, 18 x 24 inches
Rosaire Appel, Transient sounds, 2020, ink, pencil, marker, acrylic paint on polyester film, 18 x 24 inches
Kit White, 12.20, 2020, oil and toner transfer on paper, 7 x 10 1/4 inches
Jennifer Viola, Day and Night, 2020, mixed media on woven paper, 30 x 44 inches
www.jenniferviola.com
Alice Zinnes, Underneath The Air of Transience, pen & ink on paper, 3 ¼ x 4 7/8 inches
www.AliceZinnes.com
Lee Tribe, The Seeker, 2021, card and ink, height:: 7 1/2 inches
Linda Stillman, Black Square 1, 2021, acrylic, Japanese Maple leaf fragments and pencil on museum board, 9 1/4 x 9 inches
www.lindastillman.com
Blinn Jacobs, Reconstruction, 2021, Honeycomb cardboard, casein, oil pastel on incised gatorboard, balsa wood, 18 x 18 inches
www.blinnjacobs.com
Joan Mellon, Let’s Talk, 2021, wood, acrylic paint, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches
www.joanmellon.com
Bill Page, Bascilia Light - MX, 2021, acrylic/canvas, 20 x 16 iches
Brigid Kennedy, BROKEN V, 2017, plaster, cement, wire, 19 x 11 x 11 inches
https://brigidkennedyart.com/
Elizabeth Rundquist, gouache on paper, 9 x 12 inches
Carol Radsprecher, Reverse, 2021, inkjet print drawn and colored in Photoshop, 12 x 12 inches
Brenda Zlamany, Portrait #108 (Alex Katz), 2010–11, oil on panel, 24 x 12 inches
Julie Shapiro, One, 2021, oil on canvas, 36 x 56 inches (diptych)
www.julieshapiroart.com
Aga Ousseinov, Slant of Moonlight (Celestography), 2021, mixed media on panel, 12 x 9 inches
www.agaousseinov.com
Julia A. Coash, Strata 2, 2021, ink and mixed media on paper, 5 1/2 x 15 inches
juliaacoash.com
Deanna Sirlin, Strata (detail), 2020-21, Translucent c-print on glass, 7 x 5 feet
www.deannasirlin.com
Tony Moore, Blue Guide II, 2020, wood-fired ceramic, 21 3/4 x 20 1/2 x 9 inches
www.TonyMooreArt.com
“My objects are places of remembrance where multiplicities of associations take place. Most recently these have been concerned with issues of the human condition. Abstracted figures are rather like surrogates, playing out a deeply psychological fiction of desperately moving toward “something”. Something hopeful, yet presently out of reach. Something eternally becoming …”
Friederike Oeser, Rote Metamorphose (Red Metamorphosis), 2021, print, synthetic substance, epoxy resin, 7 9/10 x 5 1/2 x 15 inches
www.friederike-oeser.de
Cathy Diamond, MISSING PERSONS, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
www.cathydiamond.com
Dane Goodman, another way of knowing, Model Magic. 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
Patricia Bender, 2021, graphite + pastel on bristol, 7 x 5 inches
www.patriciaAbender.com
Win Zibeon, Self-Portrait-The Mask, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 54 inches
https://winzibeon.com/
Ani Rosskam, STOPPED BY, mixed media, 30 x 30 inches
Susan Hostetler, Storm Flying, 2021, graphite, carbon and conte on mylar, 28 x 40 inches
www.susanhostetler.com
Elisa Decker, Shadow of a Memory, 1995, archival pigment print, 18 x 12 inches. AP limited edition
www.elisadecker.org/
Deborah Wasserman, The Road Less Traveled, 2019, acrylic on paper, 24 x 18
www.deborahwasserman.com
Stephanie Franks, Kind of Blue, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 60 inches
https://stephaniefranks.net
Jane Sangerman, Brume D114, 2021, mixed media on panel, 12 x 12 x 3/4 inches
https://www.janesangerman.com/home
Joy Taylor, Blossom 3, 2020, ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches
www.joytaylorart.com/
Philip Gerstein, Approach, 2020/2021, acrylic & textural medium on wood panel, 36 x 24 inches
www.PhilipGerstein.com
Diane Englander, Black and White Stacked II, 2021,
Barbara Slitkin, EyeTeeth, 2019, ceramic, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
www.myluckyart.com
Susan Moss, Colorsphere 6, 2021, oil and oil crayon on canvas, 93 x 26 inches
www.susanhmoss.com
KiP Walker, Ashes to Gold, Triptych, 2017, Digitally manipulated photographs printed on Archival Digital Paper, 12 x 18 inches each
KiPWalkerArt.com
Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, Light Thief / Collector, 2018, oil on canvas, 28 x 20 inches
John King, Right Blue Light, 2019, encaustic on wood panel, 50 x 40 inches
www.johnmcdevittking.com
Tara Mahapatra, Manifold, 2017, ink on paper, 39 2/5 x 27 3/5 inches)
www.taramahapatra.com
Mary Flinn, Light in the Dark, 2021, oil on paper, 11 x 25 inches
www.maryflinn.com