labotanica presents Extended Drawing a new exhibition about experimental approaches to drawing. Through photography, film, performance, site-specific installations, and public art, artists extend the medium of drawing beyond its traditional mode of representation. Exhibiting artists use drawing as a vehicle to explore ritual, participation, documentation, and social interaction. Artists include Regina Agu, Aisen Caro Chacin, Melanie Jamison, Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Tyrone Saunders, Carrie Schneider, and Christina Summers.
My work for the show is in 3 parts:
1. I have choreographed a drawing performance piece, which will take place during the opening reception.
Image: Study of performance installation of live drawing by Regina Agu
2. I will have selections from my daily drawing project on display. My personal work from this project, which has now reached over 200 days of daily drawing, will be presented as an installation. The project has now expanded to include 80+ artists internationally who draw daily and contribute their work to the Draw365 group page.
3. Lastly, over the next month while the show is up (through Jun 19), I will be working on a site-specific drawing installation and documenting my progress at the space. This installation will grow and change daily. I'll send out updates and also times where I will open up the space to collaborations and visits.
Summary:
On view are a selection of drawings from Agu's daily drawing project, in which the artist has committed to producing one drawing a day and posting online on various social media networks, without rules limiting subject matter, technical complexity, or materials used. The artist started this project as an experiment on Twitter and Flickr. This installation includes original drawings, as well as scanned pages from the artist's notebooks. The 200+ days of daily drawings have been created on loose leaf pages, restaurant napkins, Arches paper, and in various notebooks.
The drawings have grown to include abstract line compositions, collaged elements, figure studies, and objects that the artist interacts with throughout her day and during her travels. This diaristic project is an experiment that allows the artist to expand her drawing practice as a daily ritual while also engaging the public.
To view Agu's growing set of drawings in their entirety, please visit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reginaagu/ and select the “One Drawing a Day” set.
Another dimension to Agu's #Draw365 project is that it has grown organically to include 80+ artists internationally who participate by creating and contributing their drawings daily, and help spread the movement through linking to one another's websites, blogs, and Flickr pages, and by re-tweeting the other artists' work. To view the group page, please visit:
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