Exhibition - On Your Mark Drawing As Process

Since the beginning of recorded history, human beings have been making their mark -literally. The primal gesture of taking a stick or a stone or piece of burnt wood and rubbing it against another material to leave a trace is one of the elemental impulses that define us as human. For our purposes, we are calling this mark-making drawing.

Over the millennia, this has encompassed a wide variety of media, from ground-up earth applied with a finger, to the most delicate and spidery lines in silverpoint, to the traces put onto a touch screen. The essence is the same...the hand, arm and body in movement, tracing and recording the arc of a gesture and intention. The focus of this exhibition is to explore this impulse and the process by which we, as artists, leave a trace of ourselves along with the graphite, charcoal and ink we rub and smear and drag across the surface of life. For this exhibition, work in all media is accepted, but preference will be given to work where the line work and gesture is evident and that the work reveals the hand of the artist.