DRAWINGS by Blackfish artists
Backroom: Kanetaka Ikeda - New Member Focus
January 05 - 30, 2010
An exhibit titled, DRAWINGS, consisting of the works by 28 Blackfish Artists will be showing January 5 - 30, 2010. A First Thursday opening will take place on January 7 from 7pm - 9pm.
Sizes of the drawings range from intimate sketchbook page, 4 x 6 inches, to mural, 4 x 6 feet.
Drawing media used include compressed charcoal, watercolor, pencil, and ink; collage materials and mixed media; white watercolor on black paper; embroidery threads on fabric; and flat-strap steel forged into delicate tracery.
Themes of the drawings are greatly varied and sometimes surprising. They include: studied observation of natural forms, (cells under a microscope, birds, a beach landscape); personal narrative, (pages from a travel journal, reinterpretation of a painting by someone else, representations of the universal Tree of Life and the life cycle, whimsical reading of inkblots); and process/conceptual concerns (interpretation of mathematical symbols, random use of colors and circles to form a grid, repeated markings that weave an airy structure, overlapping of translucent star patterns on a dark field).
Showing in the backroom is Kanetaka Ikeda with mixed media sculpture and drawings titled "Everyday scenes from leaves and branches of the tree of life". A founding member of Blackfish, Kanetaka Ikeda rejoined Blackfish recently.
