Extended Drawing

Extended Drawing builds freely on Apparently Invisible, an initiative of the Drawing Center, New York, which formed their Spring Selections Show in 2009. “Extended Drawing” features the same artists;

Susan Collis (UK), Michaela Frühwirth (AT/NL), Elana Herzog (USA), Marietta Hoferer (USA), Sarah Kabot (USA), Anne Lindberg (USA), Janine Magelssen (NO), Chris Nau (USA), Janet Passehl (USA).

Tegnerforbundet Gallery, The Drawing Art Association of Oslo, Norway announces the exhibition Extended Drawing from September 1th to October 2 th 2011.

On September 2, Tegnerforbundet hosted a lively seminar on issues in contemporary drawing and in particular focused upon concepts presented in Extended Drawing. Nina Katchadourian, curator of The Viewing Program at The Drawing Center in NYC, and Sabrina van der Lay, curator at the Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art lead the discussion, and presented work from their curatorial practice as context.

Elana Herzog

Elana Herzog
Untitled 2011, Metal staples, textile, painted drywall

Susan Collis
Doubleback, 24 carat gold leaf on paper.  A4 office paper.  Collection of Jason Zeloof

Michaela Frühwirth
Sermilik station (2009), Pencil on paper, 300x367 cm

Janine Magelssen
white rectangle, putty on wall and floor, painted steel wires




Janine Magelssen
walldrawing # III, grey putty on wall

                                                                   

Janet Passehl
River, Ironed cloth 102x35 cm

Marietta Hoferer
Big C2, pencil and tape on paper, 152x152 cm

Sarah Kabot
Untitled 2011, paper, watercolor

Susan Collis
Screw up, graphite on paper

                                                                     

Chris Nau
InhabitatXXI, 2011, Cuts in drywall, 263x547 cm

                                                                       

Anne Lindberg
  Graphite and color pencil on cotton map board 147x130 cm

Although the methods the artists use are highly individual, they can nevertheless be seen as closely interrelated. This is due not least to a kind of common “temperature”, which all the works in “Extended Drawing” share. They are distinguished by a refined lack of presumption pitched somewhere between a sensitive delicacy and discreet insistence. It is an idiom that gives rise to something paradoxically vibrant, consistent and thoroughly present.  Anne Karin Jortveit (catalogue text).

Janine Magelssen is the curator of Extended Drawing.