Drawing People: A Conversation and Book Launch
Where: The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St. (Grand-Broome Sts.)
212-219-2166 Price: Free
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Image: Dasha Shishkin, We Are Not Afraid for Comparable Lives, 2011. Mixed media on canvas, 102.24 x 96.52 cm.
The act of drawing has long been considered the foundation of an artistic education, and the life class essential to the formation of an artist’s style and technique. Yet in the contemporary art world, drawing is increasingly regarded as a medium in its own right, and the figure as a subject for ongoing exploration well beyond the sketchbook. Drawing People—the publication—is a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated survey of the most compelling and inventive drawings of the human form being produced today by 70 contemporary artists from around the world.
Join Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, with artists Chloe Piene and Dasha Shishkin, whose work is featured in Drawing People, for a discussion about their drawing practices and life within one of the most creatively rich and emotionally powerful forms of art being made today.
Artists Chloe Piene and Dasha Shishkin will sign copies of Drawing People after the talk.
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