Drawing Conclusions '07 Conclusion

The Jury, composed of ArtSEEN journal Editorial Team, and the External Jury member, Denis Isaia, is pleased to announce and publish the Winner, and Co-Winners of Drawing Conclusions ’07.
The selection of works here presented shows the variety of approaches to drawing that are being produced world wide: from the more traditional approach of ink or charcoal or pencil on paper, to drawing used for and as basis of installations.
We are pleased with the range of works that have reached our final selection, reaching to the wide horizons of drawing possibilities.
The emerging artists whose works we present below have all had exhibitions in their own countries, as well as internationally.

We wish to thank all the artists who have sent work in for Drawing Conclusions, and wish you all luck with your work! Many of you were a “personal” favourite to one or the other of the Jury, yet is was the accumulation of all the votes hat determined the winners.

The Winning Drawing Project:

Lalie Schewadron _Hybrids Exhibition view:
Emulsion on wall with ophthalmic and environmental animation
290cmX700cm
Site specific installation ("Hybrids", Lounge Gallery)

Lalie Schewadron is an artist who lives and works in Boston and Lausanne, Switzerland. Her work ‘Hybrids’ is a site specific installation recently exhibited at the Lounge gallery in London from the 19th of April to the 6th of May 2007. The work is composed of emulsion on wall with ophthalmic and environmental animation and is 290x700cm.

She states that the installation is ‘intended to create an extraordinary landscape of ‘hybrid’ realities through digitally manipulating complex medical photographs and photographs from nature to create new images, entitles with a ‘life’ of their own.’ And continues by stating, ‘the drawing was created by building up layers of wall drawing and projection of the moving image, thus, exploring the notion of ‘hybridism’ through the intersection between the different media.’

The idea of such a mixture is consequently a means by which the viewer is invited into questioning the very nature of reality, perception, fiction, and chance.
www.lalies.net



Co-Winners (Runners -up in alphabetical order)

Rikka Ayasaki _Rain in a big city 90x60cm ink, black & white 04/2006

Rikka Ayasaki is a Japanese born artist, based in Paris, France. She has been practicing the SUMI - E : ink on paper technique for the past 17 years of her life, successfully bringing the ancient Japanese technique into a contemporary world.
Her drawing „Rain in a big city“ captures in whole the atmosphere of a rain storm, the weight of the clouds, and feasibly, one can smell the perfume of wet ground. Of her work Rikka says „ Expressing the world in black and white, essentially, I make interesting experiences. I just painted, for examples, roses. Somebody tells me - " These are RED roses, aren't they? " -
or - " This VIOLET color is superb! " -

Yes, my roses are GREY.
But the people who look at my paintings always find the RIGHT COLORS in their minds...”
http://ayasaki.free.fr

Aleks Bartosik _Installation drawing and performance. Willow chalk on walls. Art Gallery of Mississauga
(ON, Canada), September 2006.

Aleks Bartosik is an artist who works in Canada. Her approach to drawing allows the integration of other mediums in her work, creating a multi-disciplinary platform, where drawing can and does become an integral part of a performance, or, in another instance, the use of boxes that become a site-specific space for drawings.
She states that her work centers on the female form, where the artist plays the protagonist who is placed in various process-based narratives. Within the narratives, Aleks' characters embody a play between anthropomorphic and zoomorphic transformations.
www.aleksbartosik.com

Brian Bishop _Untitled (Undone), Charcoal on Paper 60" x 60", 8/2006

Brian Bishop is an artist and assistant professor of Art at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He describes his principle interest of his studio practice as, ‘the exploration of the fine line between the forgotten or overlooked moment and the fetishized memory as simultaneously seen through the filters of portraiture in the west, snapshot photography and the contemporary cultural phenomenon of constant surveillance. Inevitably it also addresses memory, as it is known through photography, and questions if these moments represent truth or fiction.’

In the work ‘undone’ Bishop presents the viewer with an activity that is by all means ‘mundane’. However, the success of the image rides on the fact that the banality of the activity is also simultaneously evocative of other less clear situations, which ultimately invite us to consider other more fantastical narratives.
www.brianbishop.com

Karina Pérez Aragón -Melody, Black and coloured pencils on paper. 20cm x 20cm. 2007

Karina Pérez Aragón is an Argentine artist, currently working in New York, USA, after having been based in Salzburg, Austria for several years. Of her work she states: “Emphasizing simplicity, I direct my attention to the universal. My work is based on pre-verbal images. Through reduction I feel able to come closer to the essential."
Her drawing “Melody” shows the expression of this thought on paper, a seemingly simple yet harmonious use of lines which interact with the space around them, the “emptiness” of the paper, to create an illusion of space and depth. Geometry is a visual language tool that she uses to transmit a sense of safety and natural order, as she says: “The whole universe and our own constitution are built on geometrical structures.” Through abstraction, she seeks to render the formless and infinite space.
It is by joining the eternal opposites: empty – full, that this effect is made possible.
www.perezaragon.com

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