The virtual exhibits Between Dimensions I and II explore how the dialogue between the 2D, 3D, and 4D affect the development of a drawing. Exdrawp, @exdrawp, will present a selection of artists through out 2024 who draw between dimensions. A piece of paper folds and assumes volume. In this mode of working, seamless interplays between materials merge the real the drawn. A line meandering across a piece of paper joins with a dowel of similar thickness. This projection breaks the confines of the paper and leads it into a conversation with the surrounding space. The unusual approaches of the artists in this blog feature and virtual shows on Spatial.io guide their drawings into the unknown, keeping all captive to see what may happen next.
Participating Artists:
Tineke Bruijnzeels
Image: 146 lines, 2023.
My work varies from layered paintings to minimalist drawings and installations. It often arises from repeating an action and stems from curiosity. What happens when I repeat a simple action. Not three times, but tens or hundreds of times.
My current drawing project started in August 2023, and will finish in August 2024. I am making a drawing a day for a year: 'One more line a day'. Starting with one line on day 1, two on day 2, three hundred and sixty-five on day 365.
About:
Tineke Bruijnzeels
studied for a BA in Graphic Design and Advertising in the Netherlands.
She studied for a BA
in Fine Art in England.
Since 2002 she
exhibited in galleries, a French chateau, an Abbey, on art fairs and
in art centres in England, France, Switzerland, and The Netherlands.
After living abroad
for thirty years, she now lives in The Netherlands where she was
born.
Joana Fischer
Image: Zeitgeist
Joana’s
delicate and intricate works combine drawing and painting, and are filled with
technical, visual and conceptual juxtapositions and dualisms. The imagery in
these collage-like creations reveals intertwined, connotative dream
landscapes and explores environmental and existential themes. These invite the
observer to roam freely beyond the canvas.
Fragments
taken out of context and assembled together in a new creation: Urbanism and
nature, inside and outside, specific locations and open areas, near and far,
silence and commotion, superposition and exposure, resolution and desire, ease
and self-absorption. With partially hidden details peeking out from behind,
Joana creates more than just visually complex and beautiful artwork—she also
engages in narratives that inspire the observer to think, dream, discover, and
revel in nature.
Joana
draws with ink and paints with diluted acrylic paint on architectural polyester
film. Her love of drawing becomes particularly apparent in her smaller formats.
These include filigree pen drawings of impressions of nature against white
spaces and brightly colored striations. In some cases, these drawings become
figural upon closer inspection to reveal such scenes as climbing children.
Often illuminated with lights that are integrated in their frames, these works
appear to be small windows into nature.
Her
larger formats typically hint at urban architecture or natural landscapes. Some
of them are free-hanging and illuminated from behind using LED light strips and
other light sources, thereby enhancing the brightness of the colors. Ink layers
of varying thicknesses, partially in neon colors, bring about an iridescent
quality where images of real architecture are combined with a colorful
interpretation of nature through the overlay of special polyester films. This
creates a sophisticated, soft-focus effect that is both graphically delicate
and gossamer-fine in style, conveying more haziness than tangible reality, more
vision than impression.
The
illuminated free-hanging works are Joana’s vision of bright city lights and she
specifically designs the light to fit each artistic creation. She also likes
enabling the observer to walk around each work and notice the different images
available from every angle, as it lends a sculptural quality to the art.
Joana
draws her artistic inspiration both from her travels and her direct
environment. For her, drawing and painting are moments of quiet and
introspection. This allows her to analyze and interpret the Zeitgeist,
focusing on contrasting themes such as urban life vs. nature, environmental
protection vs. pollution, or organic vs. synthetic. Other prominent themes of
hers include childhood, free play and the experience of nature—inspired by her
own childhood memories and her observation of her three children playing and
interacting. Joana feels that children’s simple, spontaneous play in a natural
setting is increasingly being lost in contemporary America as more and more
emphasis is put on school work and organized activities.
Joana began working with plastic film because it
represents what she sees all around her, even cluttering the beaches of
Florida. She considers plastic consumption and pollution in the US a major
issue. In her work, however, plastic is hardly noticeable, and has an organic
quality. To avoid pushing an in-your-face message, she plays with organic and
synthetic appearances for the sake of a more subtle underlying idea.
Cordula Hesselbarth
Image: line spatial drawing 1, 2023.
One
central aim of my artistic work is to expand drawing. I detach the static image
from the paper format and try to shift the drawing from the two-dimensional
surface into space and expand it in the direction of sculpture and movement.
For
me, drawings are something alive. Every drawing that I produce is not fixed,
but more like a snapshot from a dynamic process. I want to make this dynamic
visible within my drawings, which is why I combine them with animated films. I
draw with light reflections, shadow lines, follow traces of movement, use the
dynamics of liquids, gravity or growth movements to create images. They are, so
to speak, „drawings by natural forces", and I approach them in digital and
manual paintings, works on paper and video installations.
I am
not the drawer, the designer of these lines, but rather the physical forces of
nature, which work according to physical laws. They are pictures drawn by
nature itself! Nature as a „drawing hand", the artist takes on the role of
the receiver rather than the designer or actor.
And I
am not primarily interested in the external appearance of the objects, but in
the behavior and interactions of the components – in other words, the movement!
Carolina Koster
Image: Presence 3, 2023.
Carolina Koster’s work
reflects her fascination for the expressiveness of the physical world that
surrounds us. Outside her studio, she seeks connection with where she is. She
meets her surroundings in a dialogue and filters what is meaningful to her. Finds
and experiences are taken to her studio. There she waits, until an object or
material demands interaction. She packs, applies layers of charcoal, traces,
photographs, folds and unfolds, pours, searches for words, cuts and tears,
until a found method fits.
She uses sober,
(sometimes found) fundamental materials, such as charcoal, paper, plaster,
stone, wood and corrugated cardboard. By using these simple materials, she
emphasises, that our ordinary, everyday surroundings, contain enigmatic poetry.
With her interventions, she makes this palpable.
Carolina Koster’s
works appeal to a fundamental connection with our physical world. They invite
us to reflect on our own physical being, to connect with ourselves and to
experience something of the sublime of the tangible world.
Carolina Koster (1969)
was born into the family of a Dutch development worker and grew up in Pakistan,
Tanzania and the Netherlands. Through this frequent travelling, she developed a
fascination for her physical environment and the experience of place and time.
In 1994, she graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy (Academy of Fine
Arts) in Rotterdam (NL). She now works from her studio in the same city.
Caroline Lambard
Image: Threads and shadow forms, 2023.
I draw with
lines in two and three dimensions, creating structures in space. The structures
develop through process rather than being pre-designed. They begin as minimal
forms or marks and are then built through repetition, in response to the space
being occupied. The depth, distance, and the work is driven by a fascination
with the process of development and with the experience of tree-dimensionality
in everyday life, in particular how we perceive depth, distance, and the
effects of movement. Through a language of geometric lines, I’m looking at
connections between structure and fluidity in forms.
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Image: Time Line (Projections) Detail, 2023.
Time
Lines (Projections):
This ongoing installation explores the question "What is a drawing?" and how dimensionality, architectural space, and time can affect the development of a drawing. Shadows cast by the sun coming through a window (in relation to architecture) are projected and traced onto paper. 3D marks (made with dowels) are then interrelated with the 2D lines, creating a dialogue between dimensions. Works are then placed on the walls, floors, and corners of a space to converse and see what happens next.
Martha Skinner
Image: My Home is Everywhere, 2023.
Martha Skinner, born in Colombia, is an
international multi-media artist. With a Masters in Architecture & Urban
Culture, her career as an artist, researcher, professor & public speaker
spans 25 years.
Martha converses with our built environment
through visualizations of the cycles of life to address temporal, social and
environmental issues of our delicate ecology. She utilizes this methodology in
her work to filter, transmit, capture, and commemorate the intangible qualities
of the passing of time with playful representations of the relationships
between humans and the environment in which they are situated.
Martha’s work has been recognized by various
awards and internationally-recognized publications and exhibitions. Her
most recent works are permanently affixed to the blockchain, as she explores
the relationship of Web3 with infinite dimensions.
Highlights of Martha’s career include:
· 1999 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan
· Creator of Notation A/V, a seminar about the merging
of drawing and moving image and creator of CiTy-SCAN, The City as
Bodies in Movement (body of research), and 10^10, The Exponential
Power of Design
· TEDx speaker (2015): The Exponential Power of Design
· Creator of several Living Maps of cities which
include NY A/V, a moving document and installation on Broadway
Street (acquired by the NY Historical Society, and featured in the book
“Installations by Architects” and as part of an international travel
exhibition. Also received Best of Category Award from Concept Category of ID
Magazine.
· Professor at Clemson University (2001-2014) & founding
partner at field office (1997-2010)
· Exhibitor at 10th Venice Biennale, 4th International Architecture Biennale
Rotterdam & Black Mountain College Museum,
{Re}Happening and NFT Liverpool
· Five awards from I.D. Magazine, & a Next Generation Award from Metropolis
Magazine
· Receipt of a People, Prosperity and the Planet Award from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
· 2nd prize – Sun Shelter Competition
Monika Supe
I am an artist with an
architectural background so my main topic is the space and our doing in space.
I always feel the need of drawing in architectural practice, that's why my
means of expression is drawing and I am used to thinking “in lines”. Therefore,
I am looking for new ways of using everything that’s linear.
Because I
am interested in our relationship to space and necessarily to time, I want to
know how we perceive these and react in these. Questions concern me like:
what’s the difference between space and body, inside and outside, past, present
and future. And how are they connected?
Against this background I make drawings in two and three dimensions. Often I
use wire as “long lines”, sometimes I crochet it and form objects. But also I
draw structures on paper or with sand on the floor which look like knitted. I
like working with linear structures that because I can visualize the working
process: with their eyes observers can follow the way of lines or wires and can
trace back the progress of time. So I can visualize and store something which
is normally invisible – time.
Bio
1967 born in Munich.
1995 Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur, Technical University of Munich. 1998
Architect, Bavarian professional Association of Architects. 1998-2000 Assistant
Lecturer in construction and design, Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
Since 2004 lectures at universities, state and private institutions. 2006
Doctorate with Honours, Technical University of Kaiserslautern. 1995-2010
Lecturer in architectural graphics, drawing, methods of design, theory in
perception, theory in aesthetics and design, University of Applied Sciences
Weihenstephan Freising and Academy of Fashion and Design AMD Munich. 2010-2011
Professor for interior design, Academy of Fashion and Design AMD Munich. Since
2011 freelance artist. Since 2015 member of the BBK professional Association of
visual Artists. Since 2020 member of the Werkbund Bayern. 2020 Professor for
Architecture and Design International University of Applied Sciences IUBH.
Since 2021 member of Haus der Kunst Künstlerverbund.
Award winning artist, shows in Germany and abroad, including Goethe Institut
Paris, Rijswijk Museum The Hague, Arsennale Venice, Gallery Thomas Modern
Munich, Gallery Metropolitan Theatre Tokyo, Art Austria Vienna or Gallery
Bachlechner Graz.
more information: www.monikasupe.de
Lisa Woolfe
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I situate my work within the
field of contemporary drawing practice. I make two dimensional drawings on
paper as well as three dimensional drawings that I call drawings in space. The
materials I use can be as varied as traditional charcoal or ink on paper,
hand-drawn animations, video projections, aluminum insect screen, wire, bamboo
reed and copper.
I am curious about human
behavior, specifically the tension between our reliance on and desire to
protect our natural world and be good citizens on one hand, and our desire to
be comfortable on the other.
Artwork title: 'Birds' Commissioned by Casula Powerhouse Art
Centre
Year: 2023
Photo credit CPAC
Not for Sale
Materials: Stainless steel bushfire mesh, stainless steel
insect screen, polypipe, stainless steel fencing and pet mesh, swage, stainless
steel wire, aluminum frame, cotton sash cord, nylon rope, marine grade
stainless steel ubolts and bolts. Hand drawn and digital animations, charcoal
drawings on Fabriano paper
Lisa Woolfe has a BFA (Hons) from UNSW Art & Design/National Art School, Sydney. Previous studies include a Dip Fine Arts at Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank TAFE and studying drawing at Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney.
She has completed residencies internationally at
Vermont Studio Center USA and in Australia including the Hill End Artist
Residency and Grafton Regional Art Gallery Artist in Residence program. Her
work has been included as a finalist in awards including Kedumba Drawing Award,
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Burnie Print Prize and Mosman Art Prize among
others. She received the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Award (Noosa Regional Art
Gallery) in 2020 and Earle Backen Award for Excellence in Printmaking from UNSW
Art & Design, and received a William Fletcher Foundation Tertiary Grant.
Her work is held in private collections in
Australia and the United Kingdom.
As well as her art practice Lisa produces
exhibitions in her specific area of interest drawing. She as most recently
co-curator of Just Draw an exhibition of contemporary Australian drawing at
Newcastle Art Gallery and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2016. For more
information on this project visit the Just Draw
website.
Jowita Wyszomirska
Jowita Wyszomirska is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of drawing and large scale installations. She is captivated by the motion and stillness of Nature and its unseen forces and infuses her work with information from satellite imagery, weather patterns, maps, and other data combined with impressions of physical landscapes. Moving between representation and abstraction, her work focuses on and then conceptualizes our landscapes, bringing together aesthetics and ecological concerns. She received her BFA at Illinois State University and her MFA from the University of Maryland. She has exhibited nationally in solo and two-person exhibitions. Her honors include residency fellowships at the Andy Warhol Preserve Artist in Residence program, Long Island, NY; Wrangell Artist Residency in McCarthy, Alaska, Jentel Foundation, Wyoming; Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska; and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Italy.
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