OCT 26 // DRAWING II OPENS

December 21, 202412:03 pm - 12:03 pm

Biddeford, ME – Second installment of a two-part drawing exhibition opens October 26 at Engine

Please join Engine for the opening of Drawing II: The Other Day, the second installment of a two-part exhibition curated by Deborah Whitney, curator/gallerist formerly of Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine, on Friday, October 26, from 5-7pm. The exhibition will run through November 24, 2018. While the first installment, Drawing I: The Everyday, featured a collection of works with subject matter and concepts that are familiar, Drawing II: The Other Day will feature works that are more about abstract concepts–less recognizable imagery with an emphasis on pattern and color. Drawing II: The Other Day artists include Terrence Brett, Clint Fulkerson, Deborah Randall, Ling-Wen Tsai, Bridget Spaeth, Noriko Sakanishi, Avy Claire, Kate Beck, and Grace DeGennaro. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 1pm-6pm and Saturdays 11am-2pm.

The two shows together investigate the range that drawing can be…the materials, the presentation, the complexity and the simplicity. In The Everyday, Judith Allen-Efstathiou’s banner of lace is drawn out of the binary holes of computer paper, and in The Other Day, Ling-Wen Tsai has made a series of panels which communicate words hand-drawn from binary code in sumi ink. It is these juxtapositions which help to illustrate the kinds of ideas that drawing may incorporate.

Drawing I: The Every Day featured works by Terrance Brett, Sabrina Small, Brian Lynch, Paul Ridyard, Alex Sax, Nicola Saunderson, Tanja Kunz, Melinda Barnes, Judith Allen-Efstathiou, and Deborah Whitney.

Drawing II: The Other Day will feature works by Terrence Brett, Clint Fulkerson, Deborah Randall, Ling-Wen Tsai, Bridget Spaeth, Noriko Sakanishi, Avy Claire, Kate Beck, and Grace DeGennaro. “The Other Day, will be a collection of works that are more about abstract concepts–less recognizable imagery with an emphasis on pattern and color. I am thinking about it as music–with big and small notes…a sort of different view of life. Terrance Brett is working on a conceptual piece in which he is responding to a piece of music that he heard years ago and which stayed with him. Please excuse the pun, but, I am riffing on that idea of the connection of our visual and aural senses. I have always envisioned the installation of artwork in a space as music, and this is the first time that I have endeavored to intentionally construct a show around this notion of vision and sound,” says Whitney.

For more information: Tammy Ackerman, [email protected], 207-229-3560

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Partnering with UNE, Engine has offered professional level gallery and classroom experiences for undergraduate and local students enrolled in arts classes as well as a venue to see art by both regionally and nationally recognized artists.

Stephen Burt

University of New England

Engine is and has been a focal point of downtown Biddeford for many years for so many artists and creative spirits. It is a go-to for me: a retreat, a destination, a source for connection and ideas and community.

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Artist

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Artist & Arts Teacher

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Community Action Committee