DRAWERS

The Nashville Scene is pleased to partner with OZ Arts to present Drawers: Provocative Drawings, a broad survey of contemporary drawings organized around sexual ideas. The installation is arranged into four salon-style clusters of drawings from a diverse range of artists, as well as two spotlit works — a large-scale charcoal sketch by Thornton Dial and a triptych of “Fuck Grid” drawings by Betty Tompkins.

The fourth installment of the Adult Contemporary series, Drawers explores the close relationship between drawing and intimacy. There’s a personal, secretive element to many of the drawings — several of the works come directly from artists’ sketchbooks, and others feel like they’re capturing a private idea. There’s also an immediacy to a drawing that can tap into something primal about art-making. A handful of the Drawers artists work with live models, and the tension between the artist and subject translates into the work they’ve created together. Finally, there’s an approachable, attainable quality to drawing — it’s practically the girl next door of artistic mediums. Even the most skillfully rendered work can seem within reach simply because you’ve likely held the same type of pen in your own hand, smudged the same line, or smelled the same pencil shavings. And in keeping with that line of thinking, maybe you’ve also had the same thoughts.

Drawers artists are:

Jeremy Biles  Annie Brito Hodgin  John Brooks  Sai Clayton  Paul Collins  Thornton Dial  William Downs  Fetish  Kevin Guthrie  Brady Haston  Clarity Haynes  Brett Douglas Hunter  Perrin R. Ireland  Lee Isaacson  Kimia Ferdowsi Kline  Julia Martin  Rebecca Morgan  Elisheba Israel Mrozik  Ozu  Ryan M. Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz  Katarina Riesing  Lindsey Rome  Sal Salandra  Louis M. Schmidt  Willie Stewart  Betty Tompkins  XPayne  Caleb Yono

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