FINE LINES
(October 26 - December 9, 2023)
Fine Lines is an exhibition dedicated to gallery artists who excel at drawing, usually on paper, using various mediums including ink, pastel, marker, and graphite. While their creations are unique, they all turn to art making for solace and life affirmation.
Joseph Lambert
Untitled, 2015
Mixed media on masonite
18.9 x 38.07 inches
48 x 96.7 cm
JLam 1
Joseph Lambert
Untitled, 2012
Mixed media on cardboard
14.17 x 18.9 inches
36 x 48 cm
JLam 18
Joseph Lambert (Belgium b. 1950) drawings resemble at once handwritten letters, one line of thought superimposed upon the another, as well as geographic stratum. Script seem to squirm between rock, water and earth, all forming histories compressed in time. Like Lambert, Nazanin Tayebeh (Iran, b. 1993) also writes, but her missives are directed to an imaginary friend. Depending on the status of their friendship on any given day, she writes colorful organized tight-lined letters on a sharp diagonal slat, or explosive letters with quickly drawn lines breaking the ordered flow of her markings.
Nazanin Tayebeh
Untitled , 2021
Marker on paper
19.5 x 27.5 inches
49.5 x 69.9 cm
NAZ 9
Nazanin Tayebeh
Untitled, 2022
Marker on paper
19.75 x 27.75 inches
50.2 x 70.5 cm
NAZ 10
Mahmut Ozdemir
Untitled, 2007
Ballpoint pen on cardboard
13.5 x 19.5 inches
34.3 x 49.5 cm
MOz 73
Mahmut Ozdemir (Turkey, 1949 – 2021) came from a small village near the sea of Marmara. He envisioned greatness for his town by imagining the building of architecturally fantastic stadiums that would draw an international audience. Waiting for this dream to become a reality, he ran a general store out of the front room of his house, picked figs, and told fortunes reading coffee grounds.
Mahmut Ozdemir
Untitled, n.d.
Ballpoint pen on paper
7.75 x 7.75 inches
19.7 x 19.7 cm
MOz 5
Mahmut Ozdemir
Untitled, 2004
Ballpoint pen and marker on cardboard
13.5 x 19.5 inches
34.3 x 49.5 cm
MOz 69
Rubel Adrían Matos Chambrot (Cuba, b. 2003), is also fascinated by architecture. His precisely rendered, spired cities are connected building to building by untethered bridges. A single cityscape will often be inverted two or three times in the same drawing.
Rubel Adrián Matos Chambrot
Untitled, 2018
Ink on paper
19.75 x 27.5 inches
50.2 x 69.9 cm
RAMC 11
Rubel Adrián Matos Chambrot
Untitled, 2021
Ink on paper
19.75 x 26 inches
50.2 x 66 cm
RAMC 4
Evelyne Postic
La mère méditérannée, 2021
Ink on marine map
28.74 x 40.94 inches
73 x 104 cm
EvP 7
Evelyne Postic
Les trois royaumes, 2021
Ink on marine map
23.62 x 19.29 inches
60 x 49 cm
EvP 8
Like Ozdemir and Chambrot, Evelyne Postic (France, b. 1951) is also concerned with place. For this exhibition she has drawn on old maps whose specific locales become partially obscured backgrounds for the fantastical life-forms that encapsulate our shared life cycle; birth, maturation, and death.
Taguchi BOSS
Untitled, 2022
Colored pencil on paper
20.47 x 27.17 inches
52 x 69 cm
TagB 12
Taguchi BOSS
Untitled, 2022
Colored pencil, pen on paper
30.75 x 43 inches
78.1 x 109.2 cm
TagB 21
Taguchi BOSS
Untitled, 2022
Colored pencil, pen on paper
20.25 x 28.5 inches
51.4 x 72.4 cm
TagB 18
Taguchi Boss (Japan, b. 1945) and Loïc Lucas (France, 1966) both express fascination with biologic diversity. Boss prefers colorful drawings of life on a cellular level with protozoan-like forms morphing into half assembled creatures with multiple limbs, while Lucas limits his palate to three colors, and is more intent on human anatomy; branching alveoli nestle next to flowering fallopian tubes, small, still not completely formed hands spanning the two, all in mutual accord to their purpose—the sustainability of life force.
Loïc Lucas
"Rhizome", 2020
Ink on paper
19.69 x 34.65 inches
50 x 88 cm
LLu 19
Loïc Lucas
"Presque sans Titre" , 2020
Ink on paper
14.25 x 20 inches
36.2 x 50.8 cm
LLu 11
Loïc Lucas
"Anemogamie", 2020
Ink on paper
14.25 x 20 inches=
36.2 x 50.8 cm
LLu 7
Loïc Lucas
"Plante", 2020
Ink on paper
31.5 x 47.24 inches
80 x 120 cm
LLu 16
Sarvenaz Farsian
Untitled, 2022
Ink on paper
39.25 x 27.5 inches
99.7 x 69.9 cm
SvF 28
Sarvenaz Farsian (Iran, b. 1984) uses drawing as a meditative device. She creates highly detailed abstract drawings using a fine point pen. She states the moment I start drawing on a plain white surface is the moment of birth, and the moment I finish drawing is the loss of life. On this journey of life are joyful moments and of course severities, that are slowly interwoven into these meditations.
Sarvenaz Farsian
Untitled, 2018
Ink on paper
16.5 x 11.75 inches
41.9 x 29.8 cm
SvF 5
Sarvenaz Farsian
Untitled, 2020
Ink on paper
16 x 12.25 inches
40.6 x 31.1 cm
SvF 19
Mohammad Banissi
Untitled (Bedroom in Arles by Van Gogh), 2022
Chalk pastel on paper
27.5 x 39.5 inches
69.9 x 100.3 cm
MBI 1
Mohammad Banissi (Iran, b. 9192) has been exhibited extensively in Iran and France since 2016. He takes particular inspiration from the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, which he translates into luminous refracted abstractions using oil pastels.
Mohammad Banissi
Untitled (Portrait of Joseph Roulin by Van Gogh), 2022
Chalk pastel on paper
38.5 x 27.5 inches
97.8 x 69.9 cm
MBI 7
Mohammad Banissi
Untitled (Van Gogh's Chair by Van Gogh), 2022
Chalk pastel on paper
39.25 x 27.5 inches
99.7 x 69.9 cm
MBI 23
Tomáš Malíček and Karel Pajma are Czech artists who have found stability and solace in their abstract artmaking. Malíček draws miniscule connected forms that create larger clusters which expand and contract on the paper. Pajma makes translucent geometric drawings that playfully experiment with the morphing of straight lines into curved lines.
Tomáš Malíček
Untitled, 2020
Marker, pen on paper
8.5 x 12 inches
21.6 x 30.5 cm
ToMa 4
Tomáš Malíček
Untitled, 2020
Marker, pen on paper
8.5 x 12 inches
21.6 x 30.5 cm
ToMa 6
Karel Pajma
Untitled, 2021
Pen on paper
33 x 23.5 inches
83.8 x 59.7 cm
KP 3
Karel Pajma
Untitled, 2022
Pen on paper
33 x 23.25 inches
83.8 x 59.1 cm
KP 2
Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2022
Ballpoint pen, graphite on paper
21.25 x 20 inches
54 x 50.8 cm
NoA 388
Angkasapura (Indonesia, 1979) who grew up in animistic surroundings in Irian Jaya, always loved to draw. When he was 24 years old, he was visited by a supernatural being who told him to make art to keep Balance and sound moral judgment in his life. Every drawing he makes has the phrase KI RADEN SASTRO INGI which was said to him by the Spirit. He creates using found paper, pen, and pencils, and always his brilliant, improvisational creativity.
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Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2023
Ballpoint pen, graphite on paper
8.5 x 11.5 inches
21.6 x 29.2 cm
NoA 391
Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2023
Ballpoint pen, graphite on paper
10.25 x 14 inches
26 x 35.6 cm
NoA 393