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A Page from the Drawing Papers Archive

This page from Drawing Papers 89 features Untitled, an ink and graphite
drawing created by Jerome Marshak in 2009.

Selections
Spring 2010: Sea Marks
was comprised of works by Agnes Barley, Jerome
Marshak, and Peter Matthews, three artists selected from the Viewing Program
who notate, describe, and interpret aspects of the sea. The exhibition examines
the capacity of drawing to represent something as dynamic, volatile, and vast
as the ocean.

Marshak’s drawings are influenced by the
currents, wind, waves, turbulence, light, sky, and reflections of  the marine landscape that surrounds his
studio on Lopez Island.  Using custom
made Plexiglas templates inspired by the iconic landscape lines in his view, he
traces the highly polished  Plexi edge
with a very sharp, fast pencil line.
Small dots, in a palette related to the tones and light phenomena of the
particular day, are added next. The rhythmical application of the dots produces
a shimmering and blinking reminiscent of light as it hits the water on a bright
day.

The Drawing
Papers
 are a series of publications documenting The Drawing
Center’s exhibitions and public programs and providing a forum for the study of
drawing. For more information on Drawing
Papers 89 
please click here.

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