Established in 1977, The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program offers emerging artists the opportunity to include their work in a curated Artist Registry that is consulted by a wide variety of arts professionals from across the globe: curators, gallerists, collectors, and educators, among others. Artists accepted into the Viewing Program are also invited to meet one-on-one with the Viewing Program Curator to review and discuss a recent selection of their work. This informal conversation provides artists with a valuable opportunity to engage in a critical discussion of their practice.
Approximately twice a year The Drawing Center presents “Selections,” group exhibitions of artists curated from the Viewing Program, to give exposure to emerging artists.
Check out some of my works here:
http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/share_portfolio.cfm?pf=2442
I perceive drawing to be about renewing continuously and reinventing traditional means. I always try to renew and make sure I see more possibilities in the works I do, for example, a charcoal drawing is further developed into an animation. I am keen in traditional animation and techniques which combine solid drawing. I have always preferred to do things in the simplest of ways possible, my animations are made using simple drawing materials, existing objects I created/found, a still camera and a tripod. I worked intuitively and spontaneously, allowing the story to unfold and develop from suggestions taken from marks, lines and accidents in my drawings. Subsequent frames for the story are created through a repetitive process of drawing, erasing and re-drawing. The sequence of drawing, erasure and re-drawing determines how the narrative develops. Animation enabled me to further develop an ability to convey stories and ideas through moving images. I am also interested in DIY ethics where people are involved in a process of putting things or objects together for their own use. A lot of my work comes from an interest in how things are made, how things are done and the way materials are manipulated and used.
