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Read Whitehot magazine on Louise Despont, then pop by The Drawing Center. Only six days left to see it - tomorrow and next Wed-Sun! "Scale is so important to Despont’s drawings. The work exists simultaneously as a series of intricate impressions and colossal gestures. Microcosms of marks nest within macrocosms and ultimately whole cartographies of color. For the first time, Despont’s drawings hang naked and unglazed. She has substituted another type of framing or “energy scaffold.” Her shaped spaces and Kuffner’s gamelatron emphasize the need to encounter the drawings with the body, to measure oneself against it, to be enveloped. Despont’s drawings cannot be seen, fully or even partially, through the reproduction of a screen. "-excerpt from Adrian Coleman's article #LouiseDespont louisedespont whitehotmagazine Image: Louise Despont, Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture (Pure Potential No. 1), 2015. Colored pencil and graphite on antique ledger book pages. 54 1/2 x 50 1/2 i...

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