The Drawing Center Announces 2017–2018 Exhibition Schedule

Highlights include 

Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors    
October 13, 2017–January 21, 2018

Terry Winters: Drawing Structures, Developing Scenes    
April 6–July 29, 2018   

For further information and images, please contact 
Molly Gross, Communications Director
The Drawing Center 212 219 2166 x119 | mgross@drawingcenter.org

New York, June 20, 2017 – Today, The Drawing Center announces its 2017–18 exhibition schedule. The season launches in August with Where Do We Stand?: Two Years of Drawing with Open Sessions (August 3–September 17, 2017), a group exhibition of all current Open Sessions artists. Where Do We Stand? is an exploration of contemporary drawing encompassing video, sculpture, photography, and installation, as well as traditional drawing forms. In September, The Drawing Center will present David Scher: Does It Fold? (September 7–9, 2017), a series of performances by multi-disciplinary artist Scher and special guests that will focus on fifty-five years of Scher’s sketchbooks. Also in September, John Zorn will curate The Stone at The Drawing Center: Music and Visuals(September 12–17, 2017). Performers will include: Marco Cappelli and VJ Andrea Lapsus Pennisi, Zeena Parkins and Thomas Dunn, Marc Ribot, Craig Taborn and Ikue Mori, Sara Serpa, and Brian Marsella. Opening in October, Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors(October 13, 2017–January 21, 2018) will present a new body of specially-commissioned, large-scale drawings and paintings on paper that Bernstein has been making since Donald J. Trump was elected president last November. Concurrently, in the Drawing Room’s Eddie Martinez: Studio Wall, Martinez will bring the “drawing wall” that he maintains in his studio to the museum, papering the gallery with thousands of sketches that he will change throughout the exhibition’s run. Open Sessions 11, the final group exhibition featuring artists from the program’s 2016–17 cycle, will also be on view in The Lab (October 13–November 19, 2017). At the beginning of December, an exhibition of drawings by Raha Raissnia (December 1, 2017–January 21, 2018) will highlight the artist’s works on paper and will be accompanied by two film performances that bring together photographs of her work, shot footage, and drawings on celluloid.
 
In our Main Gallery in April 2018, we will present Terry Winters: Drawing Structures, Developing Scenes (April 6–July 29, 2018), an overview of Winters’s drawings from 1980 to the present, including full cycles of drawings, such as File Drawings (2009), as well as a selection of large-scale works on paper. Simultaneously in our Drawing Room, Anglo-French artists Alpha and Chris Mason, known collectively as Hipkiss, will have their first solo museum show in New York. Hipkiss: Bulwark will present new Tower drawings made specifically for the Drawing Room. In addition, The Drawing Center will present a new commission by Argentinian artist Eduardo Navarro, who will produce a series of edible frames, glazings, and drawings, entitled Into our cells.
 
Long-term installations for the 2017–18 season include Susan York: Foundation, which will open in our Lab Corridor in October 2017. York will use graphite to replicate part of the museum’s foundation: eroded concrete piers that protrude above the ground floor. For her installation opening in February 2018 in The Drawing Center’s Stairwell, Inka Essenhigh, who is known for her hallucinatory scenes that weave narratives about everyday life together with fantastical characters and backdrops, will create a large-scale mural drawing of a surreal New York skyline, a reference to the museum’s downtown space.

Please download the press release here for more details.


At The Drawing Center
Summer 2017–Spring 2018

Where Do We Stand?: Two Years of Drawing with Open Sessions    
August 3–September 17, 2017

David Scher: Does It Fold?
September 7–9, 2017

The Stone at The Drawing Center: Music and Visuals 
curated by John Zorn
September 12–17, 2017

Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors    
October 13, 2017–January 21, 2018

Eddie Martinez: Studio Wall    
October 13, 2017–January 21, 2018

Open Sessions 11    
October 13–November 19, 2017

Raha Raissnia    
December 1, 2017–January 21, 2018

Terry Winters: Drawing Structures, Developing Scenes    
April 6–July 29, 2018    

Hipkiss: Bulwark    
April 6–July 29, 2018    

Eduardo Navarro: Into our cells    
April 6–22, 2018

INSTALLATIONS

Susan York: Foundation 
October 2017

Inka Essenhigh 
February 2018