# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BpIHF2FB7N3
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045487-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-10-19T19:39:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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The Art Newspaper included “For Opacity” in their “Three Shows to See” round up!
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"In For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Nathaniel Mary Quinn (until 3 February 2019), the Drawing Center unites these artists in their shared use of drawing to deal with “subjecthood”, “opacity” referring to how subjects can resist depiction—and their right to do so. But take away this intellectual framework, and the show still stands: an enjoyable opportunity to see the work—some made for the show—of three radically different young artists. Elijah Burgher’s works in extremely fine lines of coloured pencil on paper, include almost surrealist portraits in soft colours with abstract, Sonia Delaunay-like pieces in bold hues. Quinn’s pieces, mixing drawing and collage, creates distorted faces from found images that can be grotesque or beautiful, often with pleading eyes. Ojih Odutola’s beguiling portraits include subjects from her ongoing fictional narrative of two aristocratic Nigerian families joined by marriage. The expressions, poses and detailed backgrounds give you just enough information about the characters—the strongest, most compelling subjects in the show—to make you feel like there’s so much more you want to know."-The Art Newspaper

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Image: L to R: details from Elijah Burgher, “Gordon”, 2015. Color pencil on paper, 24 x 19 inches. Collection of Thomas Lavin. | Toyin Ojih Odutola, “Paris Apartment”, 2016–17. Charcoal, pastel, and pencil on paper, 59 3/8 x 42 inches. Dean Collection. | Nathaniel Mary Quinn, “King Kong Ain’t Got Nothing on Me”, 2013. Black charcoal, gouache, and oil pastel on Coventry vellum paper, 86 1/2 x 61 1/2 inches. Collection of Fairfax Dorn and Marc Glimcher.

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