Curators, collectors, students, and other art lovers converged at the Menil Drawing Institute on Friday, December 2 to see the opening of "Drawing in Time," organized by participants in HART 390/591, "Thinking Modern Drawing: On Site at the Menil Drawing Institute," taught by Professor Graham Bader this fall. Entirely conceived and arranged by students, the exhibition includes drawings by Pablo Picasso, Vija Celmins, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Mona Hatoum, Georges Seurat, and others, all from the excellent collections of the Menil Drawing Institute.
The exhibition explores forms of “drawing in time” across decades and through four interrelated lenses: works focusing on “nostalgic forms and historical residues”; drawings in which artists take the “marking of time” as a primary subject matter or conceptual framework; works that explore “durational nature”; and selections concentrating on “the time of making,” in which temporal unfolding becomes primary to the creative process. In all the exhibited works, drawing’s temporal conditions and evocations create a diversity of visual and metaphorical meanings—those of drawing in time.
The exhibition, which will be up through mid-January, was curated by Rice undergraduate and graduate students Gia Braddock, Sophia Devereux, Tammy Feng, Bay Fujimoto, Caspar Krisch, Janet Lu, Vaidya Parthasarathy, Sophia Prieto, Katherine Savchuk, Marge Steurbaut, Emily Wilcox and Tiffany Wu. Congratulations to all!
Photos: Cathy Baumanis