Drawing the Line at Nancy Hoffman Gallery

DRAWING THE LINE

May 20-June 20, 2006

Project Space exhibition of drawings, including a range of works by gallery artists from representational, to abstract, to conceptual, to drawings for sculpture projects, to the fluid use of line as "subject."

Including Ilan Averbuch, Howard Buchwald, Rupert Deese, Don Eddy, Gregory Halili, Bill Martin, Carlton Nell, John Okulick, Frank Owen, Peter Plagens, Richard Purdy, Joseph Raffael, and Bill Richards

Frank Owen, Untitled, mixed media, 8 x 8 inches

Frank Owen, Untitled 8, mixed media, 8 x 8 inches

Don Eddy, Three Women: Penelope, 2006, colored pencil on paper, 13 x 7 inches

Don Eddy, Speaking in Tongues XIII, 2005, colored pencil on pencil, 8 x 15 inches

Bill Richards,Winter Leaves, 2001, graphite on paper, 21 x 26 inches

Bill Richards, Hudson River Park #2, 2004, graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches

John Okulick, Spider, 2005, metal, resin, frame, 16 x 11 x 12 inches

John Okulick, Candlelight, 1997, charcoal on paper, 40 x 32 inches

John Okulick's drawings are tableaux with an image installed on an aluminum easel created by the artist, along with a resin bird as built-in viewer of the drawing. These are drawings about yearning, longing, dreams and impossible situations. A duck gazes into the galaxy from a perch on Okulick’s aluminum easel, knowing flight into space is not possible. Bill Richards’s drawings of flowers in groundcover are representational and abstract simultaneously, rich graphite images of nature by an artist who works exclusively in graphite.

Gregory Halili, Uptown Romance II, 2005, watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 inches

Gregory Halili, State of Grace (sunrise), 2005, watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 inches

More intimate than paintings or sculptures, drawings invite the viewer into the thought process of each artist. Gregory Halili’s small-scale cityscapes in watercolor are miniature vistas of New York, of Central Park, the Chrysler Building, anonymous buildings that become the subject for studies in gray.

Gregory Halili, Through Time and Memory (central park), 2005, watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 inches

Gregory Halili, Central View (central park), 2005, watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 inches

Gregory Halili, Broadway Looking Towards Downtown, 2006, watercolor on paper, 10 x 7 inches

Bill Martin, Ground Cover, 1979, gouache on paper, 6 x 9 inches

Howard Buchwald, Untitled II, 2006, colored pencil on paper, 22 x 30 inches

Rupert Deese, Untitled, 2006, graphite on paper, 28 x 25 inches

Carlton Nell, Composition 181, 2006, silverpoint on panel, 6 x 10 inches

Joseph Raffael, Hydrangea, 1975, ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches

Joseph Raffael’s drawings from the 70's delve into the interstices of nature in a hydrangea blossom of varying shades of grays and blacks, and a lily pond in black and white that is filled with nature’s colors

Ilan Averbuch, The Tree, 2004, mixed media on paper, 35 x 49 inches

Peter Plagens, Untitled (146-00), 2000, mixed media on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Ilan Averbuch's drawings of his sculpture proposals depict works in wood, stone, lead and glass in natural settings accompanied by writings the artist connects to his subjects. In his drawing "The Tree," the artist writes thoughts on the strength of a tree, its monumentality, mentioning a mulberry tree important to his family from Israel.