Louise Despont working in Bali.

Excerpts from Interview with Louise Despont by Brett Littman   Part I: On Drawing and The Drawing Center’s Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture   Brett Littman: What materials do you

Martin Puryear, Face Down, 2008. White bronze. Courtesy of the artist. © Martin Puryear, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photography by Jamie Stukenberg, Professional Graphics.

A member of the Postminimalist generation, Martin Puryear has distinguished his career with an enduring commitment to traditional yet diverse methods of craft. While the artist is best known for

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Studies of the Head of an Infant, ca. 1522. Red chalk, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Galleria deli Uffizi, Gabinetto Diisegni e Stampe, Florence, by permission of the Ministero die been e dell attività culturali e del truismo.

Behind every adoring saint, serene madonna, and chubby Christ child in so many Italian Renaissance altarpieces there are surely flesh and blood people, the assistants, lovers, and children of the

Kerry Downey, To Do list, Video and photography, in collaboration with Jen Rosenblit and Joanna Seitz. 2012-2013.

I am fascinated by the old elevators of New York. Those heavy, unwieldy machines that lift one up to vintage factory-type places, possessed by the spirit of the industrial revolution.

Drawing Together

I was the last participant in Felice Koenig’s participatory exhibition Drawing Together, organized by curator Claire Schneider of CS1 Projects, at Big Orbit in Buffalo. The day of my visit,

Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1946. Gouache on paper. Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection. Photo courtesy of Jean Vong.

  One of the major currents in Contemporary art in the 20th Century was the use of tropes and techniques of commercial art in the service of a non-commercial artistic

Laurel Sparks, Dazzle Drawing 1, 2013. Graphite, marker, colored pencil, and ink on paper, 27 x 23 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

The show currently on view at Brennan & Griffin Gallery, Coal For Wine includes five artists working with unconventional raw material elements in their practice—whether through painting, sculpture, collage, or

Detail from Sunset. Courtesy the artist; Frith Street, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris & London. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.

The British artist Tacita Dean, who is normally based in Berlin, has spent the past year in Los Angeles as the Getty Research Institute’s current Artist in Residence.  Best known