 – Viewing now through March 13, 2022, “On Drawing Drawing On: Ten Years of Fellowship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry…){kind=link}
CHICAGO, IL (AAPNW) – Viewing now through March 13, 2022, “On Drawing Drawing On: Ten Years of Fellowship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is an exhibition of drawings, sketches, diagrams, scores, texts, and ephemera from Gray Center Fellows signature initiative: The Gray Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship.
The exhibition brings together artists and scholars to “draw” on each other’s minds, creating new genres of art and scholarship. Conceptually and formally, the works on view adopt the experimental nature of the program, exploring what is possible at the meeting point between the arts and academic life.
Participants are: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Fadi Baki, Alison Bechdel, Sara Black, Bill and Ted, James Carpenter, Hillary Chute, Romi Crawford, Marc Downie, Samantha Frost, Hannah B Higgins, Ghenwa Hayek, Theaster Gates, Amber Ginsburg, Sean Griffin, Paul Kaiser, Omar Khouri, Julia Kuo, George E. Lewis, Antoni Miralda, W.J.T. Mitchell, Sidney Nagel, Stephan Palmié, Monica Peek, Pope.L, Dieter Roelstraete, Cauleen Smith, Jessica Stockholder, Catherine Sullivan, Garland Martin Taylor, Augusta Read Thomas, Elizabeth Tung, Anne M. Wagner, Yao Chen and Judith Zeitlin.
Visitors will first encounter a reading room where they can listen to interviews from past Gray Center directors, read through issues of Portable Gray magazine and other publications, including browse additional contributions on the Logan Center Exhibitions website.
Continuing, viewers will find in the main gallery an expansive selection of artworks that represent a variety of approaches to drawing are presented as well as through March 13th, a series of special screenings in the Logan Center’s Performance Hall that feature film and moving image works.
For more on this exhibit and others see: www.loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu.