Elimination of the Inbetween:
Drawing Works from the Concordia MFA Program
April 9 to May 1, 2010
Devon Beggs
Patrick Dunford
Jim Holyoak
Bronwen Mowen
William Patrick
Sara Pupo
Matt Shane
Mona Sharma
Sherry Walchuk
Anna Rún Tryggvadottir
James Whitman
Guest curated by James Whitman
Drawing is close to thought, an economical medium, quick and of simple means. It is the least technically and materially burdened of visual media. Like writing, it is a widespread form of thinking and expression beyond artistic practice, easily traversing diverse professional and social worlds. As such it is well suited to the diaristic, and to picturing the relationship between self and other, whether that other be the nearest body, one’s family, or the wider social and natural world. The artists in this exhibition use drawing to produce personal histories, to interrogate their social place. Stories from ones neighbourhood, city, and family; ones personal interests, obsessions, and crank notions all are occasions for working out a politic, a viewpoint, a way of relating with one another. These artists are concerned with drawings legibility and approachability, with its ability to extend out to and communicate within diverse social spaces.