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Words on Paper

Dec 12, 2020 - Feb 28, 2021

Art Labor Gallery is pleased to announce its newest group exhibition 鈥淲orlds on Paper鈥, this is the first group exhibition curated around the medium of works on paper.

This exhibition explores artists鈥 diverse ways of working with paper. Paper as a medium is diverse, flexible, and versatile. Different papers have each aunique texture and a way of responding to the media applied, whether watercolor, pastel, acrylic, pen, pencil or oil. Varying techniques employed by these artists show off the individual methods of creation on these works on paper, presentations that are original and engaging.

Working on paper, the artists are allowed a more instantaneous certainty, the immediate permanence brings about ease when at work, in that with paint, there is no touch up or erasing the act, and their expressions more spontaneous in comparison to working on canvas, leaving more trace of their creative impulse visible in the artwork, and allowing the audience a peek into the artists鈥 creative process.

Unlike our previous exhibitions, the artworks on view in this exhibition will be changing constantly throughout the duration of the show, creating a sense of transformation and replicating the fresh immediateness of the act of working on paper.


Art Labor Gallery is pleased to announce its newest group exhibition 鈥淲orlds on Paper鈥, this is the first group exhibition curated around the medium of works on paper.

This exhibition explores artists鈥 diverse ways of working with paper. Paper as a medium is diverse, flexible, and versatile. Different papers have each aunique texture and a way of responding to the media applied, whether watercolor, pastel, acrylic, pen, pencil or oil. Varying techniques employed by these artists show off the individual methods of creation on these works on paper, presentations that are original and engaging.

Working on paper, the artists are allowed a more instantaneous certainty, the immediate permanence brings about ease when at work, in that with paint, there is no touch up or erasing the act, and their expressions more spontaneous in comparison to working on canvas, leaving more trace of their creative impulse visible in the artwork, and allowing the audience a peek into the artists鈥 creative process.

Unlike our previous exhibitions, the artworks on view in this exhibition will be changing constantly throughout the duration of the show, creating a sense of transformation and replicating the fresh immediateness of the act of working on paper.


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No.19 Lane Wulumuqi Zhong Lu Jing'an - Shanghai, China 200040

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