MICA Drawing: Contemporary Practices

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For her exhibition at on view as of this Friday at The Drawing Center, Amy Sillman will present a video (or what she calls an animated drawing) entitled After Metamorphoses, a work based on Ovid’s epic narrative poem that she conceived in 2014 as a Resident at the American Academy in Rome. To create the video, Sillman overlaid abstract drawings (which were made in a bathtub in Berlin) with iPad sketches that precisely follow the sequence of changes that occur in Ovid’s fifteen-book narrative.

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Photo: Sillman’s video work in our Lab gallery. (at The Drawing Center)

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Another example of Harry Smith’s wonderful String Figures.

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Cabinet Magazine a quarterly of Art and Culture

A link to Cabinet Magazine’s press release for their exhibition of String Figures by Harry Smith - a really eccentric figure who did deep research into his subjects of interest. The text provides a bio and also a sentence giving some background of String Figures. 

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Robert Rohm, Rope Piece, 1969

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Link to ICA Boston’s description of these Robert Rohm pieces. 1969. The link provides a detailed description of Rohm’s thoughts and approach to these works and their significance within the process-based and conceptual movement. 

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Arthur Ganson- an artist and self-taught engineer who makes kinetic sculpture.

A link to Arthur Ganson’s website. He’s an incredibly inventive artist, building his machines from the ground up and an important figure in kinetic artwork. His work is funny, poignant and profound. 

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Link to artist Eske Rex's website, specifically for his project "Drawing Machine 02". The drawing tool is a performer and artwork, the drawing action is equally an artwork and the final drawing is also the artwork alongside being, perhaps, an artifact.

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Tree Drawings, Tim Knowles

“A series of drawings produced using drawing implements attached to the tips of tree branches, the wind’s effects on the tree recorded on paper. Like signatures each drawing reveals the different qualities and characteristics of each tree.”

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Sol Lewitt Instruction and Diagram, 1969

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Photo Credit: Sonya Stefan

Wall Drawing #103: Not straight vertical lines from floor to ceiling, using as much wall area as is determined by the drafter.
 Black pencil
 First Drawn by: Unknown

First Installation: Doorway Hall, Zagreb, Yugoslavia July 1971

VA Building: Drawing performed by Anne-Marie Guérin and Christine LeBlanc.

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Photo Credit: Guy l’Heureux

SOL LEWITT

Wall Drawing #394: A 12" (30 cm) grid covering the wall. Within each 12" (30 cm) square, a vertical, horizontal, diagonal right or diagonal left straight, not straight or broken line bisecting the square.
Black crayon, black pencil grid, white wall

First drawn by: Unknown


First Installation: Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
, May 1983

FOFA York Corridor Vitrines: Drawing performed by Ben Compton, Naakita Feldman-Kiss, Anne-Marie Guérin, WhiteFeather Hunter, Zoe Jenkins, Jeanette Johns, Mai Koppel, Christine LeBlanc, Nathalie Leu, Kevin Leung, Zoë Wonfor, Lianne Zannier