“Drawing the Line” Exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery Project Space

May 20-June 20, 2006

This is to let you know that the next exhibition in Nancy Hoffman’s Project Space will be one
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.”

Included in the exhibition are works by:

More intimate than paintings or sculptures, drawings invite the viewer into the thought process
of each artist.  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.  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.  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.  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.
For additional information and/or photographs, please call 212-966-6676.