Great Graphite
One of the things I’ve noticed is that there’s not an awful lot of focus on pure drawing in the art world here in Los Angeles. I don’t see a lot of it up in galleries, on artwalks, on people’s walls, and so on and so forth. At least not in comparison to painting (especially) or sculpture. That may be a function of my ignorance, not having studied all the aspects of the “scene”. It may also be a more widespread phenomenon than just Los Angeles. Not sure. Anyway, when an exhibition with a drawing focus does come along, I get excited and often go. (The Getty had two big ones in the last couple of years, I should say, focusing on da Vinci (hurrah!) and Rembrandt (hurrah!) and his students on different occasions. But what about contemporary work?)
Well, to my delight I discovered that Saturday had an opening event at Gallery Nucleus with two major highlights for me. The first was that it was focusing on pencil drawing by current artists (Lined in Lead: Works in Graphite), and the second was that Michael Zulli would be there (there were some works of his on display) for the opening. I simply love his work in the graphic novel art world. I’ve no idea if you read […] Click to continue reading this post
