Two upcoming events by Draw to Perform
Online studio visits to artists that relate to contemporary and performative drawing.
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.
Please go to the Draw to Perform Eventbrite page to book your ticket to this event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dtp-online-susan-schwalb-studio-visit-tickets-159988316361?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
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.
Most of the contemporary artists who draw with a metal stylus continue the tradition of Leonardo and Dürer by using the soft, delicate line for figurative imagery. By contrast, Schwalb’s work is resolutely abstract, and her handling of the technique is extremely innovative. Paper is torn and burned to provide an emotionally free and dramatic contrast to the precise linearity of silverpoint. In other works, silverpoint is combined with flat expanses of acrylic paint or gold leaf. Sometimes, subtle shifts of tone and color emerge from the juxtaposition of a wide variety of metals. From 1997–2008 Schwalb abandoned the stylus altogether in favor of wide metal bands that achieve a shimmering atmosphere reminiscent of the luminous transparency of watercolor. In recent works, she creates a counterpoint between fine lines drawn with a stylus and broad swatches of bronze or copper tones. Those entitled “Toccata” have a stronger linear presence, and on occasion she has actually used fine pencil lines as a dark black contract to the 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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Movement & Stillness in Performative Drawing
A Day of Drawing Performances & Workshops, by Draw to Perform
Sunday 11 July 2021, 10:30-17:30. Artsadmin - Toynbee Studios (The Court Room), London
- WE ARE BACK IN LONDON -
Draw to Perform invites you to a day of live drawing performances and workshops by local artists. Drawing performance is a stream of performance art in which artists create their artwork in front of a live audience while communicating with the viewers.
We invite all art lovers, drawing fans and students to attend this event, to follow the Draw to Perform and to participate in the discussion.
The upcoming workshop session by Draw to Perform will include three bookable workshops, provided by artists, dancers, and performers. The workshops will explore drawing performance and strategies for forming a dialog between drawing, sound, process and performance. Participants will draw live, share and discuss their outcomes and ideas. Workshops will target different groups and issues in drawing and performance and focus on the subjects of Movement & Stillness in Performative Drawing. It will allow the general public the opportunity to experience an art form first hand, work with and be tutored by some of the leading artists in their field.
Please note Toynbee Studios have limited space capacity and workshops have limited numbers of tickets. Book your tickets online as soon as possible and reserve your participation in this event.
Please go to the Draw to Perform Eventbrite page to book your ticket to this event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/draw-to-perform-performative-drawing-day-london-july-2021-tickets-157860233207?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sunday 11 July - Schedule:
10:30 - 11:00 Drawing performance by Robert Luzar
11:00 - 12:30 Workshop with Robert Luzar
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13:00 - 13:30 Drawing performance by Marega Palser
13:30 - 15:00 Workshop with Marega Palser
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15:30 - 16:00 Drawing performance by Ram Samocha
16:00 - 17:30 Workshop with Ram Samocha
https://drawtoperform.com
https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/toynbee-studios
Artsadmin - Toynbee Studios (The Court Room)
28 Commercial Street
London, E1 6AB
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10:30 - 11:00 Drawing performance by Robert Luzar
Demonstration 10: how to do measure with sticks and stones
'Sticks and stones may brake my bones' is a phrase that deals with injuries and insults. Demonstration 10 is from a series of YouTube videos that, as a 'score', show and ask audiences to do, or 'trace', things (that 'may... or may not' be always done). Demonstration 10 will now be performed again, but, this time, differently.
11:00 - 12:30 Workshop with Robert Luzar
The workshop will play with tracing 'points'. The points will be 'traced' as acts and measures of persistence (going on, still doing), resistance (not go on, not doing), and suspension (may or may not go on). The points will be traced playfully through spaces, bodies, video, projection, found objects, and scores. Stillness will be retraced around questions like Still doing this?
Anyone attending the workshop and performance please watch this video by Robert in advance: https://www.youtube.com/watch
Robert Luzar is an artist, writer, and educator. His works engage with ‘event’ and ‘trace’ through forms of change, body, point, place and ‘precarious’ forms of existence; using crossovers of drawing with live-art performance, video, Internet, and space. He exhibits globally in live-art events, museums and galleries, such as Palazzo Loredan Venice (IT), Torrance Art Museum (USA), Talbot Rice Gallery (UK), DRAWinternational (FR), Katzman Contemporary (CA), Künstlerhaus Dortmund(DE), and CUMT Institute (China).
https://www.robertluzar.com/
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13:00 - 13:30 Drawing performance by Marega Palser
Connetic Melody
The performance ‘Connetic Melody’ will be based on the ideas outlined in the workshop.
13:30 - 15:00 Workshop with Marega Palser
Under the skin lies a complex network of inter-connected movement and rhythms, allowing us to function in our day to day.Through stillness and simple movement we will take a deep dive into the body to create a body map based on the sensations felt.One line leads to another... following the Line a picture emerges, a picture turns in to a map, a map turns into a score, each line layered with a different intensity and history.If we think of the entire body holding memory, our relationship with it is more of an ongoing conversation, rather than a statement. ( No prior experience needed )
Marega Palser is a performance based artist living in Newport, South Wales. She originally studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance, and after graduating she went on to work with various theatre companies, as well as being a founder member of the dance theatre group Paradox Shuffle who were based in Cardiff. Since 2001 she has worked with Gareth Clark as one half of the performance duo Mr & Mrs Clark.
She has collaborated with many artists and musicians and has performed and made work for Gallery spaces and for outdoor events both in this country and abroad. In 1994 she went to Japan to study and work with Butoh dancer Tetsuro Fukuhara. Palser completed a BA Honours in Fine Art at Howard Gardens (UWIC) in Cardiff, and a year later received a Creative Wales Award to develop her art and performance practice.
http://www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk
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15:30 - 16:00 Drawing performance by Ram Samocha
Steel Drawing
The new drawing performance by artist Ram Samocha combines between few elements of drawing. Samocha will draw with a drill and metal on a round piece of paper and create a three diminution drawing around him. This live performance intends to explore the physical ability and the limits of the artist while using unusual drawing tools.
16:00 - 17:30 Workshop with Ram Samocha
This performative drawing workshop with Ram Samocha will focus on working with silverpoint and metal as the main tool for drawing. This workshop combines elements of movement and stillness with mark making and sound.
The workshop will concentrate on the connection and combination between live-action and working with traditional drawing technics such as metalpoint. It will allow participants to experiment with this practice, and talk about possible options of process and presentation. Participants will have the opportunity to draw live, share and discuss their actions. ( No prior experience needed )
Ram Samocha is a multi-disciplinary artist who currently resides in Brighton, UK. Samocha’s work combines drawing with video, installation, and live performance. Samocha often mixes modern and traditional drawing techniques while searching for new ways to combine between 2D and 3D work. Samocha is the founder of Draw to Perform, an international gathering of artists and theorists involved in drawing performance. Samocha’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally and his work is part of various museums and private collections.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RamSamocha
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