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Walk the Distance and Slow Down
This selection of works on paper from the collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey features 29 international artists whose work highlights the ever-evolving potential of contemporary drawing through a variety of techniques, forms, and approaches that move beyond the perceived limits of paper as an artistic substrate and medium.
The exhibition lends itself to an intimate connection with the artists and their work. We are able to relate to drawing on paper as a space for contemplation and experimentation, where freedom is given to forms and ideas to be developed and processed. There is a simplicity, immediacy honesty, playfulness, and vulnerability that reveals insight into the artist鈥檚 process and gives life to the work. Whether the artist鈥檚 technique removes the artist鈥檚 hand or emphasizes it, each drawing serves as a record of the artist鈥檚 mind, a marked perception that becomes a conversation in which we are invited to engage.
For some of these artists, drawing is their primary medium, for many it is merely an extension of other forms of creation that include painting, installation art, performance, and literature. Within the exhibition, we find boundaries between artistic disciplines dissolved. Drawing becomes sculpture, musical compositions, visual poetry. Layered, repeated, and erased lines form patterns that map out geometric designs, tide levels, thought process, and movements of the body鈥攕ome by meticulous imperative, others lyrically arranged.
Walk the Distance and Slow Down is a dance between visual harmony and aesthetic displacement. Defined by subtle gesture, intense physical labor or marked density that, at times, subvert ordered structures and give weight to larger political issues or deeper human contemplation. Soliciting a closer look and requiring a step back, the works in the exhibition psychologically and physically reorder space, inviting us into different dimensions of observation. Asked to Walk the Distance and Slow Down, we are encouraged and challenged to really look, to surrender to the experience, to discover, question, and want to know more.
Mart铆 Cormand
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This selection of works on paper from the collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey features 29 international artists whose work highlights the ever-evolving potential of contemporary drawing through a variety of techniques, forms, and approaches that move beyond the perceived limits of paper as an artistic substrate and medium.
The exhibition lends itself to an intimate connection with the artists and their work. We are able to relate to drawing on paper as a space for contemplation and experimentation, where freedom is given to forms and ideas to be developed and processed. There is a simplicity, immediacy honesty, playfulness, and vulnerability that reveals insight into the artist鈥檚 process and gives life to the work. Whether the artist鈥檚 technique removes the artist鈥檚 hand or emphasizes it, each drawing serves as a record of the artist鈥檚 mind, a marked perception that becomes a conversation in which we are invited to engage.
For some of these artists, drawing is their primary medium, for many it is merely an extension of other forms of creation that include painting, installation art, performance, and literature. Within the exhibition, we find boundaries between artistic disciplines dissolved. Drawing becomes sculpture, musical compositions, visual poetry. Layered, repeated, and erased lines form patterns that map out geometric designs, tide levels, thought process, and movements of the body鈥攕ome by meticulous imperative, others lyrically arranged.
Walk the Distance and Slow Down is a dance between visual harmony and aesthetic displacement. Defined by subtle gesture, intense physical labor or marked density that, at times, subvert ordered structures and give weight to larger political issues or deeper human contemplation. Soliciting a closer look and requiring a step back, the works in the exhibition psychologically and physically reorder space, inviting us into different dimensions of observation. Asked to Walk the Distance and Slow Down, we are encouraged and challenged to really look, to surrender to the experience, to discover, question, and want to know more.
Mart铆 Cormand
Artists on show
- Alice Attie
- Allyson Strafella
- Annabel Daou
- Bernardo Ortiz
- Christine Hiebert
- Diana de Solares
- Isabel Albrecht
- Jacob El Hanani
- Jamal Cyrus
- Jill Baroff
- Johanna Calle
- Jonathan Callan
- José Luis Landet
- Julianne Swartz
- Károly Keserü
- Kim Jones
- Lynne Woods Turner
- Marco Maggi
- Marcus Civin
- Mauro Giaconi
- Omar Emir Barquet
- Raffaella Chiara
- Ruben Ochoa
- Sebastian Rug
- Sergio Gutiérrez
- Simon Schubert
- Susan Hefuna
- Todd Bura
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