We live in a world of constantly changing images. The socialized environment is filled with the manipulated that becomes form that evolves into language and art the means for communicating emotion. And it always starts with the mark of a line. Even created by computer, pixels, zeros and ones aside, images simple and complex begin with the fundamental acts of drawing that reveal endless possibilities.
Artists use drawing to loosen up or make notes for future work.
Initial impulses may unveil simplified but recognizable forms or complexities that demand editing to become fully developed concepts. There may be spontaneity and immediacy, free flowing and volumetric forms, or the efficiency of the simplest contour lines divulging the artists' internal discourse or completed thought. Since the Renaissance drawing has been considered an individual artistic act rather than vehicle for making preliminary studies for significant work in other media. If art is as various as the people who practice it, the works represented in It Starts with A Line by Lyle Kissack, Irene Liotis, Trace Miller, Daniel Schiavone and Kylis Winborne offer unique eloquent perspectives on making art. The works by Lyle Kissack demonstrate command and decisiveness combined with ability to let go and allows himself the freedom to have the works generate.