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Ministry of Machines

Marat Paransky

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Drawing is more than a technique—it is a way of thinking, a method of inquiry, and a means of shaping physical and conceptual space. The artists in this exhibition engage with drawing not as a preliminary act but as an essential element of their creative practice. For them, drawing emerges through various materials and processes, from printed imagery and scrawled surfaces to wire armatures and coiled forms that challenge the boundaries between two and three dimensions. The work on view highlights how drawing extends beyond traditional media, existing in conversation with sculpture, ceramics, and installation. Jesse Albrecht’s mark-making fuses drawing with ceramics to explore personal and collective histories. Brian Capon and Lilli Carré embrace the fluidity of line, using it to create gestural and evocative forms. Benjamin DeMott and Emily Duke blur the boundaries of materiality, allowing their work to exist in liminal spaces between structure and dissolution. Shannon Goff and Del Harrow transform drawing into a spatial practice, where lines become architectural, sculptural, and dynamic. Myung Jin Kim and Mathew McConnell use drawing to interrogate repetition, identity, and process, while Allan Rosenbaum and Valerie Zimany use the surface as a site of intricate mark-making and narrative layering. This exhibition considers drawing as both an action and an artifact. It is a tool for discovery, a record of movement, and an extension of thought. Whether through physical gestures or conceptual frameworks, each artist harnesses the act of drawing to contemplate systems of identity, beauty, memory, and space. In doing so, they reveal that drawing is not simply a tool but an innate, evolving facet of their artistic language that transcends boundaries and redefines what it means to make a mark.

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