Working / Drawing
at Fulton Street Gallery, curated by Ken Ragsdale

January 19-March 9, 2013
Artist Reception: Friday, January 25th, 2013 5-9pm

Participating Artists:
Roger Bisbing, Colin Boyd, Francis Cape, JoAnne Carson Shoreham, Bruce Conkle Portland, Abe Ferraro, Jeanne Flanagan, Chris Gander, Lee Imonen Dexter, Michael Kukla, Matt Lafleur Taborton, Peter Leue, Paul Mauren, Ed Mayer, Sanford Mirling, William Moore, Eric Nelson, Chris Oliver, Matthew Peebles, Bill Piper, Claire Sherwood, and James A. Van Duyne

This exhibition presents a large variety of sculptor's working drawings, giving a broadly inclusive view of the visualizing processes that help to define the work of sculptors, and the issues that concern them.
The collection contains rough sketches, complex schematic shop drawings, and finished drawings, which, though intended to be stand-alone works, are subjectively tangential to the artist's inquiry.
The exhibition is presented in a fashion in which the visitor to the gallery might interact with the work in a manner similar to that of the artists in their studios, directly and without contextual or cultural separation.

Curator’s Statement: I have always been attracted to the layering of practice that results in what we might call a finished work. To paraphrase the artist Francis Alys, the final work is only the evidence of the process.

I see sculptor's drawings illustrating a distinct way of thinking through a problem. They are more than an illusion of an illusion. They also explain a program of physical action, and present a manifest of "The Kit" necessary for the completion of the work.

Although the overriding visual aesthetic may at times seem to be concerned only with the mechanical, their beauty lies in their layered purpose. They are, in effect, always about more than what they seem to be about.

PRESS:

Good things to do for the week ahead. Times Union. January 17, 2013.