Amber Chamber / Antechamber

I was on the verge of tapping the send button on an email with the subject line “Congratulations, you have been accepted into The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program” to Johanne

George Venson


George Venson, Nipples, red, 2012. Nylon reinforced latex saturated wet strength paper and archival inks, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.

Curatorial Intern Gabriella Perez interviews New York-based artist George Venson about his wallpaper works, which combine drawing, painting, and installation mediums to challenge the juncture between fine art and design.

Colter Jacobsen

Guest contributor Thom Donovan interviews San Francisco-based artist Colter Jacobsen about his idiosyncratic source material and using drawing as a medium for conversation. Thom Donovan: Your drawings seem to reproduce

Lessons from Maria Bussmann


Visitor Services Manager Genevieve Wollenbecker reflects on the drawings of Maria Bussmann, which were included in a 2003 group exhibition at The Drawing Center and in a recent solo exhibition at

John O’Connor

The Drawing Center’s intern Kate Smith recently visited the studio of Queens-based artist John O’Connor. She documented their conversation on his drawings using logos and advertising texts, among other appropriated

echo echo: Linda Matalon at Blackston


Linda Matalon, Untitled, 2010. Wax and graphite on paper, overall 19 x 25 inches. Image courtesy of Blackston, New York.

The artist Linda Matalon, who came of age in the late 1970s and early 80s, introduces a recent suite of drawings at Blackston gallery on view through April 14th. Matalon’s

Jim Shaw at Simon Lee Gallery, London


Jim Shaw, Dream Object, ("I came back to the studio and Scott had added these three dimensional..."), 2012. Acrylic on muslin with cut-out acrylic on muslin attachments, 96 1/4 x 136 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery.

  Jim Shaw once claimed to follow the example of Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic diagram The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915–23. Just as The Large

Capital Revisited


Terry Smith, Plans for Capital Revisited, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist.

Curatorial Assistant Nova Benway shares the scoop on Capital Revisited, a public art project by artist Terry Smith commissioned by The Drawing Center.     London-based artist Terry Smith recently visited

Erica Baum

In advance of the second program in The Drawing Center’s Drafts series, Communications Intern Daniel Peacock speaks with artist Erica Baum about her work with vintage books and other archival

Rick Myers & Heide Fasnacht


This installment of Footnotes begins a series of addenda to The Drawing Center’s new program series Drafts, as tributaries of the ongoing conversation around its events and the images that precipitate them.