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found: gorgeous and understated animated drawings by Francoise Gamma

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found: Thomas Wellmann

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Amy Lockhart drawings

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Opening this past Friday, Untitled Art Society invited artists to submit work influenced or responding to Louise Bourgeois. Here is an image of one of my submitted drawings:

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My proposal for the show: "Louise Bourgeois and her work was always in the background of art school, mostly through others’ mentioning and referencing. I didn’t have much of a personal relationship to her work until I learned of her ‘Insomnia Drawings’, which she completed from 1994-1995 during prolonged sleeplessness. I’ve written about my own experience with sleeplessness, describing the images found and intercepted as the body aches with syrupy weight and immobility; images which are : “ceremoniously found, acquired, read, and owned…unclear and partly muffled, [their] message all the more urgent and startling, like a weak but terrified radio signal, or the messages from creatures in our dreams, whose writing makes the hair stand up and all the senses break out in a fever of shock and adrenaline.” Louise’s drawings communicate anxiety, circular emotion, self-hypnosis, and the particular recording power of economical drawing tools. I can relate my own drawing and painting practice to the focused energy and very personal physical eccentricities of Louise’s drawings, which to me aren’t about finding relief, but of making something concrete and real out of something so internal."

Also two belated images from some hilarious drawings and genies created in collaboration with Jenine Marsh for a group show at Pith back in May:



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(really excellent drawings from Rachel Draws A Lot)

impersonal incongruity

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