Free Talk Drawing Center NY Eleanor Mikus

Eleanor Mikus will be talking about her work and her exhibition From Shell to Skin on Sat Dec 2 at 4pm.
Also on Wed 29 Nov at 6.30pm there is an auction of work by a range of well respected artists to raise funds for the Drawing Center.
This event is called Drawing Gift
Artists include; Donald Baechler Matthew Bliss Robert Bordo Matthew Brannon Delia Brown Clayton Brothers Crust and Dirt Adam Cvijanovic Marcel Dzama Benjamin Edwards Echo Eggebrecht Jacob El Hanani Franklin Evans Neil Farber Adam Fowler Glenn Goldberg Mark Grotjahn Amanda Guest Arturo Herrera David Humphrey Bill Jenson Ray Johnson Zoe Keramea Shin-Il Kim Mark Licari Jason Middlebrook Jill Moser Elizebeth Murray Todd Norsten Carl ostendarp Stephen Posen Jon Pylypchuk Paul Henry Ramirez Barry Ratoff Matthew Ritchie James Rosenquist, David Shrigley, Zac Smith Philip Taafe Charline von Heyl Garth Weiser

Tod Hanson at Cell

Tod Hanson transforms the walls of galleries with a covering of intricate (wild) patterns consisting of representations of ribbon like lines, with solid colours reminiscent of cartoons and enlarged linear based wallpaper designs. Sort of cartoon William Morris.

Private View 1 December
2 Dec - 14 Jan
Cell Project Space
258 Cambridge Heath Road, London

GPS Drawings

Click on link/title to be redirected to web site which has a whole range of drawings created using GPS. Drawings include ones made by walking around cities, flying, lawnmowers and attached to animals such as dogs.

Secret Theory of Drawing in Sligo, Eire

the 'Secret Theory of Drawing' Exhibition organised by the Drawing Room, London, travels to The Model ARts Centre, includes work by artists; David Austen,Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Patrick Ireland, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan Šarcevic, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes

Curated by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

25 Jan - 11 Mar 2007
The Model Arts Centre & Niland Gallery
The Mall
Sligo
IRELAND

I would have like to have seen this exhibition in London, to enable a comparsion with the two venues.

Sol Lewitt at Lisson Gallery

Sol Lewitt wall drawings opens on Tuesday 28 Nov 6-8pm
Lisson Gallery, London
29 Nov - 20 Jan

Johnthan Monk also opens at the Lisson at the same time

Freeing the Line

details about exhibition 'Freeing the Line' curated by Catherine De Zegher at the Marian Goodman Gallery
this exhibition was on June 22 - August 26 2006

formula

Formula
22 Nov - 08 Dec
Private View 23 Nov 5-8pm
C4RD 63 Cudworth Street, Bethnal Green, London
Exhibition by two artists SARANYA CHAIKULNGAMDEE and ELIZABETH ANNE RIMMINGTON
Looks interesting click on title for link to C4RD to get more info on show

Caroline Broadhead new work

Not what i expected from Caroline Broadhead who did that wonderful dress that filled the room. She has from looking at images of the show drawings on paper, Silhouettes of the female form and other works on paper.
13 0ct - 11 Nov
Barrett Marsden Gallery, London

Jeffery T Y Lee

first solo show by Jeffery T Y Lee, Don't know anything about this artist(apart from that fact that he was in this years new contemporaries, but drawing of forests look good and I really like the domobaals space so not a white cube and have liked everything i have seen there so far.
Domobaal 3 John St. London
17 Nov - 23 Dec

Annie Cattrell

Annie Cattrell work is cool and often relating to weather or responding to science.
New Drawings, sculptures and Photographs
Anne Faggionato, London
06 Oct - 01 Dec

Antoni Tapis Grahic Works

1 Nov - 1 Dec
Adam Gallery, London

Drawing Symposium — Constructions of the visible Prince's Drawing School

11 Dec 2006 - one week symposium (very much a taught week)
As I did the drawing symposium in 2004 I feel I can comment a bit on this. Though I really enjoy and continue to develop or explore working from observation; drawing is much more than this. Glen Sujo role as a teacher and leader of this course is a refreshing approach to life drawing. I found his use of moving (talented) dancers extremely inspiring. But, to call this week a symposium is inappropriate.
The week includes contributions from Deanna Petherbridge, Barry Phipps, Dilip Sur, Bill Woodrow and Ansel Krut. Many big names, but don't feel that this week will be at the fore front of drawing research... bit I could be wrong

INSTALLATING DRAWING: David Kefford and Ansel Krut

Unfortunately I have missed this.
31 Oct - 03 Nov
Wimbledon College of Art (probably in the Centre for Drawing??)
Ansel Krut is the current Drawing Fellow at Wimbledon college of art.
David Kefford also a previous exhibitor of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. But, his objects and installations look very curious and fun. Would have loved to see this show.... as a lot of others

Christine Taylor Patten: micro/macro: 261 drawings

11 Nov - 10 Feb
Drawing Center New York
I saw these works at the much smaller Drawing Gallery, in London. Personally I much prefer Vija Celmins drawings made of tiny dots which i find fascinating. They sort of remind me a bit of the drawing in comics to show the swish of a punch or the force of an explosion. Christine Taylor Patten

Eleanore Mikus: From Shell to Skin

11 Nov - 10 Feb
Drawing Center New York
Eleanore Mikus bit like robert Ryman, folded papers, looks quite sensitive poet, very minimalist.

thoughts on drawing research

There seems to be a need to define research boundaries for drawing, but in the case of practice based research its role as a contribution to knowledge is more difficult to define or put into words, or in fact be reproducible. To me there seems to be two sides to research in drawing, one that is in the field of 'art' where its purpose is itself, and it may need no more than that to contribute, and drawing as a tool, as a means to something else. I feel that drawings on both sides can travel to the other and work in different ways, but by removing the purpose behind it's creation.
I feel that drawing as so much to offer and is so overlooked in terms of its inherent influence and nature in relation to language, culture, cognition, and development. But, these are gain through drawing, when I draw it is a result in itself it is not an attempt to gain something other than itself. These are a few unresolved thoughts.

post - it 2006

New blog on which artist Vincent Van Driver creates drawing everyday and uploads it onto his blog. I personally think post it are a better invention than sliced bread. But there seems to be a lot of work on post-its at the moment

Drawing dreams with your eyes closed

Just found about Robin Whitmore's Dream Diary blog with some drawings of dreams completed with eyes closed. Like the white on black, seems appropriate for remembered dreams. I wish I could draw that well with my eyes closed.