Drawing = Thinking

November 5, 2015 – January 22, 2016

Kick-off event and reception Thursday, November 5, 5:30 – 7:30p.m.

Darwin’s first sketch of the tree of life, found in one of his notebooks from 1837, published in On the Origin of Species (1859).

Conceived in tandem with Cannot Be Described in Words: Drawing/Daring, at The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, the ‘exhibit’ will activate the gallery by transforming it into an interactive maker space for drawing and thinking. The programming is conceived as a response to The Art Complex Museum exhibit whose participants (four of whom are New England School of Art and Design faculty) share a sense of daring: exploring new approaches, scale and mediums that expand the definition of drawing and add to what that definition can be.

Drawing = Thinking enhances the gallery as a site actuated by the correspondence of drawing to thinking and vice versa. Workshops and demos will give students and the general public and students the chance to experience the many ways that drawing and thinking overlap. The results from these will contribute to a growing exhibit in the space of the gallery from November through January.

All workshops will be during student activity period –on Tuesday or Thursday, from 1 – 2:30p.m.

Related programs and exhibits:

Thursday, November 5, 5:30 – 7:30PM
Kick-off workshop and reception for Drawing = Thinking: Drawn From Words!
An opportunity to share, exchange and have fun.
Alumni welcome!
Suffolk University Gallery

Tuesday, November 10, 6-7:30M
How Architects Think
Associate Professor of Interior Architecture & Design Mark Brus will give a talk on how important architects and interior designers have employed drawing as a mode of thinking and speculate upon the evolving role of drawing and the creative process in the post-digital age. Evening lecture – working professionals and alumni welcome. Hands –on activity to follow.
Suffolk University Gallery

Ongoing: Film screening Drawing, The Thinking Hand
Written and directed by Judith Wechsler, 1996

This film explores the ways in which drawings are expressions of an artist’s thoughts, created as initial ideas are worked through and resulting in studies for finished works or works in their own right. It shows the various techniques and functions of drawings, from copying, studying, preparing, bearing witness, and personal statement. The film features contemporary artist Richard Serra.
http://www.judithwechsler.com/films/drawing-the-thinking-hand

September 20, 2015 – January 16, 2016
Cannot be Described In Words: Drawing/Daring

Work by ten Boston area artists and selected works by 20^th century American artists from the collection. Deborah Davidson – Guest Curator

Featuring Suffolk University faculty artists: Iona Anderson, Audrey Goldstein, Randal Thurston and Debra Weisberg as well as Jill Slosberg Ackerman, Sheila Gallagher, Raul Gonzalez, Fred Liang, Cynthia Maurice, and Ethan Murrow.

The Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street
Duxbury, MA 02331
www.artcomplex.org

Artists in the exhibit:

Additional resources and related links:

Language is a Human Experience

https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/conceptual-art/language-and-art/

Steven Pinker – The Language Instinct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE