This intimate exhibition includes drawings that explore the psychology of architectural space or artifact and the peculiar emotional intensity that can reside there.
Richard Artschwager's drawing, "Between the Door and the Window" depicts, in characteristic reductive and schematic fashion, an anonymous zone within a domestic environment. The ambiguous abstract and amorphous form that the artist situates between the window and the door evokes both physical matter and invisible energy, an anatomy of the psychological state of perception.
Kendall Buster's "Untitled" work presents an array of graphite on mylar drawings that refer to organic origins. While the initial visual analysis reveals a shell-like structure, the schema offer interpretations of shelter, protection, and armor and refer to the inner personal transformations that can occur within these structured boundaries.
Greg Hannan draws on a found styrofoam marine object that he found while in Nova Scotia. In "Northern Lights," he depicts a single telephone pole at night set against the luminous and haunting backdrop of an aurora borealis that he witnessed. Deftly rendered, the pole takes on an anthropomorphic quality of a lonely individual striding across a barren yet wondrous landscape full of solitary possibilities.
Jason Hughes's three drawings allude to transitions and difficult choices that situate an individual not only within space but within the nexus of the psyche. "Three Doors" recalls the classic "Lady or the Tiger" story as an individual is forced to confront an important decision while not knowing what destiny holds behind each door. "Blank Wall" plays optically with expectation because the drawing can be seen either as a barrier or an entry into an unknown realm. "Observation Platform," an image that the artist later constructed into a monumental sculpture, posits the need for an individual to have an elevated or greater perspective in situating the self within a moment, frequently a crossroads of possibility that is dependent upon critical decision-making.