In the 80s, I did drawings with colored pencil on black paper. It creates a dream like ambience, and I even depicted a few real dreams, along with some amateur semiotics. I actually was awarded an Individual Artists Fellowship by the Colorado Council on Arts and Humanities in drawing.
I left the medium behind when I discovered monotype print making, with its limitless, spontaneous effects. The drawings seemed to become essentially, illustrations of a state of mind, or conceptual inquiry, but even with experimentation in looser, simpler concepts, I found it hard to suggest much beyond a simple narrative.
An interesting show theme, “Multiversatility” is showing right now at the Art Students League of Denver. Artists are asked to show how their vision differs in different mediums they’ve used. I was curious whether the drawing on black paper could be made to serve my current themes, so I did one for the first time in decades:
Whether this means a return to this sort of drawing is hard to say. The medium remains laborious and seems to lack spontaneity, but it could be my approach that’s limited, not the medium. The show is on view every day until July 25.
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