James Drake’s Anatomy of Drawing and Space: Brain Trash can be seen at MCA San Diego. The artist made 1242 drawings as a daily studio practice that lasted six and a half days a week for two and a half years. Here, he talks about it with Ellen Berkovitch of AdobeAirstream.com.
James Drake‘s Salon of A Thousand Souls, a one-man show curated by New Mexico Museum of Art curator Laura Addison, can be seen at NMMA in Santa Fe through April 22, 2012. Not a “retrospective” per se, the show contains works of steel sculpture, as well as large charcoal drawings by the artist, made over a 30-year period in his career. Drake came in to AdobeAirstream to talk about the More …
I first wrote about James Drake for a catalog essay accompanying his 2005 City of Tells show at SITE Santa Fe. His monumental charcoal drawing, City of Tells, combines into a scroll-like mural the manners of Drakes closest friends, who include the artist Bruce Nauman, the Nobel laureate in physics Murray Gell-Mann, writers dead and alive, family members and vast deserts. All unfold in a sweepstakes of time memory and More …