The Drawing Center

Please note that due to the snow storm our galleries will be close tomorrow, Sunday, January 25. Weather-permitted, our galleries should re-open next week to regular hours (Wed-Sun, 12-6pm) for the last week of "Trisha Donnelly" and "Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena."

"Trisha Donnelly" is the first exhibition devoted solely to the artist's works on paper, spanning twenty-five years of drawing practice. "Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena" examines profound mysteries at the intersections of human experience, belief, and the unknown, exploring how humanity has sought to depict, interpret, and question the unexplainable and how these ideas have influenced art and culture over time.

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Last day to view "John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography" and "Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin." To celebrate the final day of the exhibitions, our galleries will be open today with extended hours from 12-8pm.

Known predominantly as a groundbreaking figure in New York’s avant-garde and experimental music scenes, John Zorn has long been celebrated for his radical innovations in music. However, his abstract drawings—a private language of symbols and notations—have remained a closely guarded secret. "Hermetic Cartography" includes a diverse array of Zorn’s visual artworks, graphic scores, dense philosophical notations, abstract poetry and artist books, and not only highlights Zorn’s radical approach to marks on paper but also his unique Theatre of Musical Optics and other experimental projects

A filmmaker who came to prominence in the late 1970s, Ericka Beckman is considered a key figure of the Pictures Generation, a group of American conceptual artists who appropriated images from popular culture for the purpose of cultural critique. Beckman takes an emphatically handmade approach to her work, making her own props and sets, as well as elaborate preparatory drawings. Her practice deals with gameplay and systems, often adopting and subverting classic tropes like fairytales to challenge societal norms. "Power of the Spin" features more than twenty of Beckman’s drawings, ranging from sketches and storyboards to large-scale finished compositions created at different moments throughout her career. These drawings are accompanied by the continuous screening of two new films by Beckman in the lower-level gallery.

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John Zorn's visual iconography (from album designs and concert announcements to his personal visual art) forms a distinct and ever-evolving language, deeply intertwined with the sound world he creates. On view in our current exhibition "John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography," this 1976 hand-drawn announcement for a solo improvisation reveals Zorn’s personal saxophone language at the time, presented within a gridded graphic matrix.

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