Join us in October for the opening of our fall exhibitions -
Richard Pousette-Dart 1930s; Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men; and Open Sessions 5. Details on
drawingcenter.org.
Evening Opening is Thursday, October 1, 6-8pm
No RSVP needed.
The Drawing Center exhibition will be the first in-depth consideration of Richard Pousette-Dart’s drawings from the 1930s, a period when the artist pursued directly-carved sculpture, yet also painted, experimented with photography, and created numerous works on paper. In "Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men", the artist creates a site-specific installation in the Drawing Room gallery. The core of the exhibition is a new series of black-soap-and-wax-on-tile portraits that Johnson calls his “anxious men.” The portraits will be set within a multi-sensory environment that includes wallpaper featuring a photograph of the artist’s father from the year Johnson was born, and an audio sound track comprised of Melvin Van Peebles’s “Love, That’s America,”. Open Sessions cont...