Online studio visits to artists that relate to contemporary and performative drawing.
About this event
DTP Online - Susan Schwalb - Studio Visit
Sat, 26 June 2021, 19:00 – 20:00 BST, London Time
In this upcoming meeting artist Susan Schwalb will host us in her new studio in NYC and will talk about her past metalpoint work, her early experimental drawing with fire and smoke, and her new body of work titled Elegy.
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DTP Online is a program by Draw to Perform which includes an hour studio visit to artists that relate to contemporary drawing, performative drawing, and live art. These online events are giving the audience an opportunity to get a closer look at the work of key artists in the genre. They also give the audience a chance to observe the artist's creative process and their choice of materials and techniques as the work progresses.
At the beginning of each meeting, the visiting artist gives a live 10-minute performance or presentation in their own private workplace. The focus lies not only on performance art, but also on those who use drawing as their main medium of work.
The program was created with the setbacks of the continued pandemic and lockdown in mind, and it gives us a chance to connect more in a time of separation and collectively brainstorm ideas on drawing, art and performing, as the audience are invited to ask the artists direct questions.
Book your pay what you can ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dtp-online-susan-schwalb-studio-visit-tickets-159988316361?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
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Susan Schwalb is one of the foremost figures in the revival of the ancient technique of silverpoint drawing in America. She was born in New York City and studied at the High School of M&A, and at Carnegie-Mellon University. Schwalb has been in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2010,’07, ‘92,’73), the MacDowell Colony (1989, ’75,’74), Yaddo, 1981 and has had two residencies in Israel in 1994 at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Schwalb’s oeuvre ranges from drawings on paper to artist books and paintings on canvas or wood panels; many of these panels are carefully beveled so that the imagery seems to float off the wall. Her work is represented in most of the major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery, Washington DC, The British Museum, London, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England.
Her current drawings juxtapose a wide variety of metals (silver, gold, brass, copper, platinum, pewter, bronze and aluminum) to obtain soft shifts in tone and color. Horizontal bands evoke an atmosphere of serenity, and the shimmer of light on the surface, created by the metals, is quite unlike any of the usual effects of metalpoint.
In 2015 her work was included in “Drawing with Silver and Gold: From Leonardo to Jasper Johns”, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC which travelled to The British Museum, London. Schwalb was one of only three living artists included in the show. In 2018 a retrospective entitled “A Luminous Line: Forty Years of Metalpoint Drawing by Susan Schwalb” was exhibited at the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock. She is the co-author of “Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing: A Complete Guide to the Medium” published in 2019 by Routledge/Focal Press, UK and US.
http://www.susanschwalb.com
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