DRAWN

2020 - 2021 | Whitespace Gallery

Drawn
verb-past participle of draw

adjective-(of a person or a person's face) looking strained from illness, exhaustion, anxiety, or pain

DRAWN is an installation of 120 drawings, made from October 2018 through November 2020, during six periods: residencies at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts; Moulin à Nef, VCCA-France in Auvillar, France; and The Hambidge Center in the North Georgia mountains; as well as in my Atlanta studio, before and during the pandemic. My immediate surroundings, as well as the uncertainty unfolding outside the security of each place, influenced my approach to the drawings. All are made on handmade papers, approximately 9” x 12”, easily transportable for traveling to the residencies. For consistency, I used watercolors, inks, graphite, and gesso in all locations, but gathered site-specific materials (eggshells, human hair, studio fragments), incorporating them into the drawings and installation. The drawings are repositories for color and mood, visual journals of my time in each place, each studio, and each new living situation with artists I did not know, as well as living in virtual isolation with my family. Paul Kayhart’s 40-minute sound loop, played in the installation, was composed from thousands of hours of sound he collected at the same places and times in which I made drawings during the two years.