Drawing as Practice
Drawing as Practice is the inaugural exhibition at the National Academy of Design鈥檚 new location in the Chelsea arts district. Curated in response to the National Academy of Design鈥檚 significant collection of more than 8,000 works of American art and architecture, this group exhibition centers on drawing as both the medium and practice connecting the many divergent points of interest that have contributed to the founding and history of the National Academy. With an emphasis on representation, abstraction, and social commentary, Drawing as Practice illustrates drawing as a through-line in the National Academy鈥檚 history, one that continues to connect the widely diverse contemporary practices of the nearly 450 active American artists and architects elected by their peers as National Academicians. Drawing as Practice spans nearly two hundred years of drawing, anchored by early examples of life studies from classes held in the first decades of the Academy鈥檚 activities. Themes and aesthetic tendencies in the exhibition range from academic drawings that were the result of instructional sessions鈥攚hich in the 19th and early 20th century centered on the figure and portraits鈥攖o non-traditional drawing practices, structures and architecture, abstraction, motion studies, and social commentary.
Drawing as Practice is the inaugural exhibition at the National Academy of Design鈥檚 new location in the Chelsea arts district. Curated in response to the National Academy of Design鈥檚 significant collection of more than 8,000 works of American art and architecture, this group exhibition centers on drawing as both the medium and practice connecting the many divergent points of interest that have contributed to the founding and history of the National Academy. With an emphasis on representation, abstraction, and social commentary, Drawing as Practice illustrates drawing as a through-line in the National Academy鈥檚 history, one that continues to connect the widely diverse contemporary practices of the nearly 450 active American artists and architects elected by their peers as National Academicians. Drawing as Practice spans nearly two hundred years of drawing, anchored by early examples of life studies from classes held in the first decades of the Academy鈥檚 activities. Themes and aesthetic tendencies in the exhibition range from academic drawings that were the result of instructional sessions鈥攚hich in the 19th and early 20th century centered on the figure and portraits鈥攖o non-traditional drawing practices, structures and architecture, abstraction, motion studies, and social commentary.
Artists on show
- Adam Liam Rose
- Alex Katz
- Ana Mendieta
- Andrea Blum
- Anne Deleporte
- Arlene Shechet
- Asa Cheffetz
- Avram Finkelstein
- Billie Tsien
- Catalina Schliebener Muñoz
- Cecily Brown
- Charles Gaines
- Charles Gwathmey
- Charles S. Chapman
- Charles White
- Christine Sun Kim
- Claes Oldenburg
- Claire Weisz
- Clifford Owens
- Coosje van Bruggen
- Dotty Attie
- Dread Scott
- Edgar Heap of Birds
- Elena Sisto
- Emilie Gossiaux
- Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle
- Frank Gehry
- Grace Arnold Albee
- Howardena Pindell
- Hugo Bastidas
- Jackie Ferrara
- James Carroll Beckwith
- James Cutler
- James Timberlake
- James Wines
- Jasper Johns
- Jennifer Bartlett
- Jenny Polak
- Jim Dine
- Joanne Greenbaum
- Joel Elias Shapiro
- Johanna Unzueta
- John Newman
- Judith Bernstein
- Judy Pfaff
- Katy Schimert
- Kiki Smith
- Liliana Porter
- LJ Roberts
- Lorraine Shemesh
- Mark di Suvero
- Mary Mattingly
- Mateo López
- Mel Chin
- Michael Waugh
- Moseley Isaac Danforth
- Nora Maite Nieves
- Paul Broches
- Paul Cadmus
- Prentiss Taylor
- Renzo Piano
- Richard Artschwager
- Richard Haas
- Robert Blackburn
- Robert Mangold
- Robert Motherwell
- Robert Riggs
- Samuel Isham
- Shellyne Rodriguez
- Sol LeWitt
- Sonia Gechtoff
- Stan Allen
- Stephen Kieran
- Walter Shirlaw
- Xenobia Bailey
- Zilia Sánchez
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