#bernice rose

[garadinervi]

Thinking is Form. The Drawings of Joseph Beuys, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1993 [Benoît Waterkeyn. Art: © ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

Authors: Ann Temkin, Bernice Rose, Dieter Koepplin

Exhibitions: MoMA, New York, NY, February 21 – May 4, 1993; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, October 10, 1993 – January 2, 1994

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Excerpts from Bernice Rose’s “Drawing Now” (1976)

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[garadinervi]

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, Edited by Gary Garrels, Bernice Rose, and Michelle White, with additional contributions by Lizzie Borden, Magdalena Dabrowski, Richard Serra, and Richard Shiff, The Menil Foundation, Houston, TX, 2011 (Internet Archive here) [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. Art: © Richard Serra / ARS, New York]

Exhibitions: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, April 13 – August 28, 2011; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, October 15, 2011 – January 16, 2012; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, March 2 – June 10, 2012

[matt-niebuhr]

Lines are tools...

"Line in its pure state describes only itself, "  Drawing Now, (1976) Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

"It is the relationship of one line to another that makes line function descriptively."

I would state too, the obvious: Lines have the job of description (representative), but only because it is with what interpretation we bring to them...  

Lines are tools. Tools are objects in service to create something else. A line is like a wrench is a tool, meaning that it is a device manipulated by the hand and used by a mechanic, plumber, carpenter, or other laborer to work, shape, move, or transform material...  In the case of the artist, the line is a tool put in service to (hopefully) shape a future experience.