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Colored Pencil Redux
July 9 - August 20, 2021


 
This exhibition features nearly fifty works in colored pencil by the following artists: Patricia Bender, Nancy Blum, Jacob Cartwright, Gionna Cuccolo, Mara Held, Warren Isensee, Cotter Luppi, Senem Oezdogan, Gary Petersen, Noah Post, Leslie Roberts, Jessica Rosner, Katia Santibañez, Audrey Stone, Richard Tinkler, and Geoffrey Young.
 
The exhibition is a continuation of Colored Pencil (2019), which explored the remarkable range of artistic expression that can be achieved with this ubiquitous, inexpensive, and portable art material. With its huge range of colors and the ability to create hard or soft lines, liquid-like translucent fields and dense and waxy opaque surfaces, the colored pencil is a favorite drawing tool for many artists. While the first iteration of the exhibition featured both representational and abstract works, here the focus is on abstraction.
 
Jacob Cartwright constructs a vibrant chromatic space with rectilinear blocks of gradating and contrasting color creating offset half circles, while Mara Held sets precise, feathery colored pencil forms over a looser ground of egg tempera, where they radiate outward from a spherical center. Brightly colored curvilinear shapes organized in symmetric patterns feel monumental despite their small scale in Warren Isensee’s drawings. Improvisatory and undulant lines meander and loop through Noah Post’s intensely colored compositions, forming irregular contours, while Gary Petersen’s brightly colored drawings set playful and irregular geometric shapes and curving lines in lively, rhythmic arrangements. Geoffrey Young’s kaleidoscopic compositions, evoking both game boards and Islamic tiles, are energetic in both color and form. Cotter Luppi burnishes his vividly colored surfaces to create a psychedelic and imaginative expression of sound made visible, while Nancy Blum burnishes her drawings of biomorphic imagery on black paper, which pulsate with an intensity and inner life. Gionna Cuccolo also works on black paper, creating small-scale drawings of architectonic spiritual zones. In a vortex of ellipses set against varying blues, and in a monochromatic web of vertical elements, Katia Santibañez offers a vision both micro- and macroscopic. Senem Oezdogan’s reductive forms are rendered in near monochromes of velvety blue, suggesting both figurative and architectonic shapes as they gently curve in space. Softly luminous, glowing color is employed in Audrey Stone’s symmetric and radiating compositions. With devotional intensity, Richard Tinkler follows the contours of irregularly shaped paper with finely rendered lines of varying color, culminating in a central, idiosyncratic solid. Jessica Rosner’s intimate and carefully rendered patterned drawings of undulating diamond shapes and loose web patterns contrast ruled sections with freehand duplication in translucent, soft colors. Language is the inspiration of the work of two artists in the exhibition: Leslie Roberts creates colorful abstractions of bar and wedge shapes, charting diagrammatic transformations of letter repetitions in phrases and place names. Patricia Bender randomly selects a word from the pages of an old Funk & Wagnall’s dictionary, letting it suggest abstract patterns rendered in translucent colored pencil across the printed sheet.
 
  Patricia Bender, Acervate
Patricia Bender
Acervate, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on 1920s Funk & Wagnall's dictionary page
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Patricia Bender, Discrete
Patricia Bender
Discrete, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on 1920s Funk & Wagnall's dictionary page
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Patricia Bender, Moon
Patricia Bender
Moon, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on 1920s Funk & Wagnall's dictionary page
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
  Patricia Bender, Mosaic Gold
Patricia Bender
Mosaic Gold, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on 1920s Funk & Wagnall's dictionary page
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 52
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 52, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 34
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 34, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
   Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 50
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 50, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 116
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 116, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 104
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 104, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
   Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 51
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 51, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Rainbow Light 2
Nancy Blum
Rainbow Light 2, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 108
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 108, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
   Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 145
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 145, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 98
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 98, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
 Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 92
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 92, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
   Nancy Blum, Black Drawing 22
Nancy Blum
Black Drawing 22, 2021
Colored pencil on black paper
12 x 9 inches
Jacob Cartwright, Paperhouse No. 5 (Harmonic Canon)
Jacob Cartwright
Paperhouse No. 5 (Harmonic Canon), 2021
Colored pencil on paper
14 x 12 inches
Jacob Cartwright, Paperhouse No. 6 (Diamond Marimba)
Jacob Cartwright
Paperhouse No. 6 (Diamond Marimba), 2021
Colored pencil on paper
14 x 12 inches
  Gionna Cuccolo, Internal Movement
Gionna Cuccolo
Internal Movement, 2020
Colored pencil on black paper
8 x 6 inches
Gionna Cuccolo, The Ascent
Gionna Cuccolo
The Ascent, 2020
Colored pencil on black paper
8 x 6 inches
Mara Held, Straight Lines 11
Mara Held
Straight Lines 11, 2020
Egg tempera and colored pencil on paper
29 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches
  Warren Isensee, Untitled
Warren Isensee
Untitled, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
9 x 11 1/2 inches
Warren Isensee, Untitled
Warren Isensee
Untitled, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
8 x 8 inches
Cotter Luppi, Accordion Player
Cotter Luppi
Accordion Player, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
21 1/2 x 15 inches
  Cotter Luppi, Durag
Cotter Luppi
Durag, 2015
Colored pencil on paper
13 x 10 inches
Senem Oezdogan, Interval
Senem Oezdogan
Interval, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
17 x 14 inches
Senem Oezdogan, Blue Canary
Senem Oezdogan
Blue Canary, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
17 x 14 inches
  Gary Petersen, Untitled 4.6.21
Gary Petersen
Untitled 4.6.21, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Gary Petersen, Untitled September 28
Gary Petersen
Untitled September 28, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Gary Petersen, Untitled July 9
Gary Petersen
Untitled July 9, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
  Gary Petersen, Untitled July 2
Gary Petersen
Untitled July 2, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Noah Post, Second Intention
Noah Post
Second Intention, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
17 x 14 inches
Noah Post, Cupula
Noah Post
Cupula, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
17 x 14 inches
  Noah Post, Family Trails
Noah Post
Family Trails, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
17 x 14 inches
Leslie Roberts, AINSLIE, BROOKLYN, CTOWN
Leslie Roberts
AINSLIE, BROOKLYN, CTOWN, 2021
Colored pencil, graphite, and ink on paper mounted on panel
12 x 9 inches
Leslie Roberts, MAYBE A DIFFERENT WAY
Leslie Roberts
MAYBE A DIFFERENT WAY, 2021
Colored pencil, graphite, and ink on paper mounted on panel
12 x 9 inches
  Jessica Rosner, Shaded Diamonds
Jessica Rosner
Shaded Diamonds, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
10 x 8 inches
Jessica Rosner, Ruled Unruled: Variation 2
Jessica Rosner
Ruled Unruled: Variation 2, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
10 x 8 inches
Katia Santibañez, Blue Variation I
Katia Santibañez
Blue Variation I, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
  Katia Santibañez, Voyage VII
Katia Santibañez
Voyage VII, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Audrey Stone, Coast to Coast Study
Audrey Stone
Coast to Coast Study, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Audrey Stone, Low Flow
Audrey Stone
Low Flow, 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
  Richard Tinkler, I 4
Richard Tinkler
I 4, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
13 x 9 1/2 inches
Richard Tinkler, I 3
Richard Tinkler
I 3, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Geoffrey Young, Double Fantasy
Geoffrey Young
Double Fantasy, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
11 x 11 inches
  Geoffrey Young, Surround Sound
Geoffrey Young
Surround Sound, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
11 x 11 inches
Geoffrey Young, Now Showing
Geoffrey Young
Now Showing, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
11 x 11 inches
Geoffrey Young, Portal (for Nellie McKay)
Geoffrey Young
Portal (for Nellie McKay), 2020
Colored pencil on paper
11 x 11 inches
  Geoffrey Young, Benevolent Impulse
Geoffrey Young
Benevolent Impulse, 2020
Colored pencil on paper
11 x 11 inches
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