The Drawing Show Artist Talk session 1 (intro)
Channel: The Loft at Liz's
Date: 2015-10-22

An Introduction to The Drawing Show:
Featured Artists (session 1)
Jodi Bonassi, Susan Feldman, J. Michael Walker, Milo Reice and Nancy Baker Cahill

Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression: Over 30,000 years ago, artists drew herds of bison racing across the rock walls of Grotte Chavet. In more recent times, drawings were considered problem-solving exercises, with emphasis on observation and investigation; they were produced as preparation for the more privileged media of painting and sculpture. But today, many artists use drawing as their primary or only art form. "The Drawing Show" focuses on artists whose aesthetic practices focus on drawing.

Exhibition Curator - Betty Ann Brown

Betty Ann Brown is an art historian, critic, and curator. She has a Ph.D. in the History of Art and teaches at Cal State Northridge and Pasadena City College.

Brown has curated several major exhibitions, including retrospectives for Hans Burkhardt, Roland Reiss, Linda Vallejo, and John White; as well as themed exhibitions addressing alternative families, community, and environmental issues. She has written dozens of critical essays, for Arts, Artscene, and Artweek; as well as numerous exhibition catalogues, for Don Bachardy, Merion Estes, Susan Feldman, Cheri Gaulke, Joanne Julian, Joan Kahn, Meg Madison, and Kim Yasuda, among others. Brown’s books include Exposures, Women & Their Art (1989); Expanding Circles: Women, Art & Community (1996); Gradiva’s Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism & Art History (2002); the online textbook Art & Mass Media (2005); Hero, Madman, Criminal, Victim: The Artist in Film & Fiction (2009); and Afternoons with June: Stories of June Wayne’s Art & Life (2012).           

Brown was featured in four History Channel programs, did a series of discussions about art history for eHow online, and was recently interviewed on KPFK. She organizes of “Contemporary Art Conversations,” an ongoing series of panel discussions between critics and artists that convenes in various Southern California venues.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Abel Alejandre, Jodi Bonassi, Nancy Baker Cahill, Susan Feldman, Joanne Julian, Echiko Ohira, J. Michael Walker, Kent Twitchell and Andre Yi.

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Read Kirk Silsbee's article on artsmeme.com 
@artsmeme http://artsmeme.com/2015/10/19/where-they-live-socal-artists-draw-at-lizs/