September 30– December 21, 2008

Bickford and Bush Compton Galleries

This is an exhibition of drawings by artists from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, assembled by curator Ann Aptaker.   Work of established and emerging artists from the museum’s home region will include contemporary drawings as well as drawings from earlier generations. The exhibition embraces two concepts:  first, that drawing emerges from an immediate and total relationship of the artist’s hand with the drawing instrument or medium, thus embodying a spontaneity and risk; and second, the very act of drawing connects the artist to humanity’s earliest, most mysterious consciousness.

The Morris Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of the TD Charitable Foundation, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and The Provident Bank Foundation.

Catalog:

An exhibition catalog is available for purchase in the Museum Shop.

Top Image: Provisional Garden Structure by Jim Dingilian, 2006

Selectively bleached found photograph

9 3/8 inches x 7 inches

Courtesy of the artist and McKenzie Fine Art, New York

Bottom Image: Between by Barbara Rachko, 2007.

Soft pastel on sandpaper

38 inches x 26 inches

Courtesy of the artist