"Raha Raissnia: Alluvius” is on view in our Lab gallery through February 4th. Wed-Sun 12-6pm | Thurs 12-8pm 〰Please note that The Drawing Center is closed for the holidays from this Sunday, December 24 through Tuesday, January 2. Our current exhibitions are all on view through February 4, 2018. 〰 artforum on Raissnia’s “Alluvius”, “The exhibition’s centerpiece is in the corner, where an analog projector relays a carousel of hand-painted, 35-mm slides onto a framed scrim. Slides depict faces and hands as time nearly stills, expiring in slow, satisfying ticks. The source image for a larger work, Fountain, 2017, was scavenged from the trash (a box of slides had been thrown out by a lab at Brooklyn College). The drawing, muddily Photorealist, depicts a seemingly abandoned mosque’s empty fountain. While a different artist might have used this backstory to evoke annihilative neglect concerning personal and national memory, Raissnia, through her process, suggests a more generative decay.” #r...