Mass Cultural Council and the New Art Center (NAC) will present the 2016 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows in Painting, Choreography, Drawing & Printmaking, and Traditional Arts on September 16-October 15, 2016, at the NAC. Linda Etcoff, one of the award-winning artists in the exhibit displays her fecund imagination using charcoal, pastel and crayon.
Drawing as activity offers me an opportunity to engage in an exploration by utilizing my powers of observation. Through rendering, organizing and manipulating space, I move toward constructing a composition which would otherwise be impossible to imagine in advance. My process concerns developing a spacial construction with an unfamiliar reality having no parallel or corresponding equivalent in nature.
Using various abstract squiggles and lines to transform my subjects into flat forms of my arrangements. Drawing as action brings me closer to the essential ethos behind the human desire to plant gardens.
See Linda Etcoff’s drawings at the upcoming exhibition 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellows in Painting, Choreography, Drawing & Printmaking, and Traditional Arts. Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 6-8 PM. New Art Center, 61 Washington Park Newtonville, MA, 02460
Image credit: All images courtesy of Linda Etcoff.
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