Past Exhibition
Within Limits
September 10, 2005 ~ October 12, 2005
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Sabina Lee Gallery is pleased to present
"Within Limits", recent drawings by 4 young artists. While all of the artists in this show stay within the limits of classic drawing techniques, their approaches and intentions are quite different. Justin Dahlberg's charcoal drawings recreate moments of contemplative activity - walking on the beach, looking at leaves. Intimate in scale, each realistic rendering forces the viewer to pay attention to details. Chelsea Dean's graphite drawings on panel are composites of meticulous, overlapping circles. Just as pixels come together to create images, her highly controlled repetitive marks generate a softly textured photographic portrait of orchids and cacti. Plant life is also the focus of Eung Ho Park whose pen and ink drawings obsessively stylize root formations. An immigrant from Korea, Park associates his drawings with ginseng roots - exposed roots mean death and vulnerability, and the compositions make references to the human form. Colin Keefe uses almost overlapping rectangles to create an architectural mirage of utopian cities in large drawings. With colored pencils enhancing the shift, he lays each rectangle to vertiginous effect, undermining any preconceived association of buildings and stability. Justin Dahlberg, and Chelsea Dean are both recent MFA graduates from Claremont College and were included in the last "Supersonic.". Colin Keefe and Eung Ho Park are both from Brooklyn and have had their work reviewed in the New York Times. |