Here you have ballpoint masters like Il Lee, whose abstract "BL-120" (2011) uses the pen's minute hatching capabilities, as well as the shininess of its ink, to full effect; or Bill Adams, whose neo-Surrealist drawings center on furry Cyclops-cube-forms.
The oil paintings and oracular graphite drawings center around physical form, complete with halved fruits and small aspects of still lifes.
THE DRAWING CENTER 35 Wooster St. (212-219-2166) — "Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking".
DRAWING CENTER GROWS The exterior of the 19th-century cast-iron-fronted Drawing Center on Wooster Street in SoHo will look much as it always has when the center reopens on Sept. 13 after a yearlong, $9.6 million renovation, but the building will have 50 percent more exhibition space.
DRAWING CENTER 35 Wooster St. (212-219-2166)—"Gego: BeTransparencyandncy and the Invisible".
Nine artists will be featured in the DRAWING CENTER exhibition "APPARENTLY INVISIBLE: SELECTIONS SPRING 2009," which starts Friday.
DRAWING CENTER 35 Wooster St. (212-219-2166) — Sculptures andrawingsgs by the Venezuelan artist born Gertrud Goldschmidt (1912-94) are on view in "Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible".
THE DRAWING CENTER "Artists & Audiences," a public program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, brings together Jenny Offill, Shamar Hill, Wah-Ming Chang, Vestal McIntyre, and Emily Blair, all of whom are 2006 N.Y.F.A. fiction fellows, for a reading of their work.
DRAWING CENTER 35 Wooster St. (212-219-2166) — For "Levity: Selections Spring 2007," fourteen participants selected from the Drawing Center's artist registry liberate drawing from gravity, in one sense or another.
2 P.M., THE DRAWING CENTER Brett Littman, executive director and curator, will guide a walk-through of "Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?," an exhibition of small, vibrantly colored, often sexually charged oil stick-and-ink drawings that Golub (1922-2004) maduringing the last five years of his life.
* "THE STAGE OF DRAWING: GESTURE AND ACT," Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, (212) 219-2166 (through May 31).
