a curator's office in a micro gallery setting
now at the micro gallery
Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy and Detail in Drawing
co-curated by Dr. Fred Ognibene and Andrea Pollan
In 2003, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote the following about an exhibition entitled Mighty Graphitey at Feature, Inc. in New York: "You would have to be going to galleries blindfolded not to know that we live in a time of pyrotechnic draftsmanship, of drawing maniacs who pick up pencils or pens and create universes of dazzling intricacy and, with luck, imagination. But in case you require proof, come see this show." She could have been writing about "Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy, and Detail in Drawing" at Curator's Office in Washington, DC.
In 2007, after the publication of such influential publications as Vitamin D, drawing is hotter than ever. Art collector and patron Fred Ognibene and curator Andrea Pollan have assembled a salon-style exhibition of area, national, and international artists who use drawing as a preferred media. The exhibition includes artists from the USA, Canada, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Germany, Japan, Iceland, and England, although the curatorial premise was to select works that attracted both a curator's and a collector's attention. Delicacy, definition, and detail are the uniting aesthetic themes in this exhibition that presents both figurative and abstract works.
Fred Ognibene states, "As a collector, I have always been fascinated by process as well as product. In my early collecting years, I focused on paintings and then gradually became more interested in photography and other media. In that evolution, I have been particularly fascinated by drawing - from simple graphite lines and abstract images to more refined, detailed representational pieces. In learning about and considering the ranges of technique in drawing, I have realized that it really is a medium in which beauty can range from very simple and sublime works to those which are detailed, dense, and complex."
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