Chance Encounters Introduction
- 1. CHANCE ENCOUNTERS: Take the leap…
- 2. Contemporary drawing challenges our more traditional concepts about what drawing "is". What counts as 'drawing' these days? Records of subway motion (William Anastasi)
- 3. Mechanized. repeated, ordered lines Sol le Witt “Wall Drawing” – He writes instructions only; museum teams must complete the drawings each time.
- 5. Gunpowder Cai Guo-Qiang (pronounced “Tsai Guo-Chiang”)
- 6. Earthworks Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty 1,500-foot (460 m) long spiral-shaped jetty extending into the Great Salt Lake in Utah constructed from rocks, earth, and salt
- 7. Textiles/embroidery/quilting Izziyana Suhaimi – graphite and embroidery
- 8. Traditional drawing media - invest time, skill, & care in finished pieces. Trenton Doyle Hancock
- 9. Ongoing negotiation of the relationship between subjective (realistic, narrative, personal)… Daniel Bilmes
- 10. …and objective approaches (“antiemotive environment”, pure abstraction, basic forms, industrial materials, serial repetition; an obscuring, even an erasure, of the artist’s hand) Adam Loganbach
- 11. COLLABORATION! Working on the same piece, continuing, adding to, or completing the work of another artist Pam and Jacob
- 12. Invite spontaneity & discover new ideas. Constantly grow – don’t get attached to the notion that “everything must fit”. Zhong Bao
- 13. Try different backgrounds that do not relate to your subject Wendy Johnson
- 14. Try combining radically different ways of working in one piece Lebbeus Woods Realistic drawing with stencils, abstraction, collage
- 15. Be willing to obscure an image or idea in the service of the final work Ginny Grayson
- 16. Invite words that don’t explain or have direct relevance to the image Jonathan Darby
- 17. Appropriate another artist’s work and add your own spin Almudena Blanco (drawing) and photo of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculpture
- 18. Try combining radically different images Anthony Goicolea
- 19. Try tearing up, re-combining, and drawing over several drawings Claire Yarrington
- 20. Evaluate & capitalize on what you do best & take it to another level by challenging yourself. Allow child-like play into your work Today’s warm-up studies: overlapping contour; completed and worked-into drawing
- 21. Collaborate with other artists, allowing different approaches to co-exist in the same work Today: group drawing on same piece of paper Group drawing (left); detail (right)