Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper

Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper brings together drawings and etchings by six artists — Ida Applebroog, John Bankston, Jennifer Bornstein, Alejandro Cardenas, Djordje Ozbolt, and Tom Reed — that demonstrate a broad range of techniques, narratives, and conceptual approaches.  The exhibition suggests how works on paper have become a more central and celebrated presence in contemporary art, despite having once been considered to be secondary to the more privileged artistic formats of painting and sculpture.  It also reveals how artists working in the more traditional manner of depicting things in this world, or the world of imagination, are imbuing the content of their work with distinctly contemporary concerns and sensibilities.