Things I Saw this Summer that Made Me Think of All of You

The following is a visual letter from our Teen Day Drawing teacher, Jessica Warner, offering a sneak preview of her motivators for the coming year.

Dear Future Students,

I’ve been collecting images as I bump into them this summer that suggest directions we can go in thinking about different approaches to making drawings.

Here’s a sample:

Nam June Paik *Olympics* Lithograph 26” x 36” 1992

Frank Lloyd Wright, (architect) *Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking The Archive*, edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jennifer Gray

Image courtesy of the artist for https://hyperallergic.com/387068/the-case-for-tom-burckhardt/ — Tom Burckhardt, not yet titled (2017), 24” X 30.

Bettycuninghamgallery.com — Rackstraw Downes *Obsolete Gas Tanks, Bayway, NJ*, 1996 Graphite on grey/brown paper 20 1/2 x 31 in. 52 x 78 cm

Swoon. *To Accompany Something Invisible.* Allouche Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Photo Martin-Lawrence Galleries — Pablo Picasso *They loose dogs on the bull from la turomaquia the art of bullfighting 1957.*

J. Paul Getty Museum — Georges Seurat (1859-1891) Madame Seurat, the Artist’s Mother, about 1882 – 1883

Photo stills Art21 through ny.curbed.com/ — Sara Sze 2nd Avenue Subway Installation NYC

Dana Schutz Swim, Smoke, Cry #2A standalone work that was completed after a similarly titled painting.

“Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.” – Robert Hughes