Sarah Sze was born in Boston in 1969, and now she lives and works in New York.  In 1991 Sze got her BA at Yale University in New Haven, CT.  She got her MFA in 1997 at the School of Visual Arts in New York.  One thing that is interesting about Sarah Sze is that she is interested by multiple subject matters, so her work is always new and changing.  For instance, some of her work plays with disorientation, movement, and disintegration, while other pieces play with the objects actual orientation, either making it ironic or contradicting.  Sze has also found interest in one of the most important human senses sight.  She has also created pieces that can and some are part of larger pieces.  it is as if the objects are a part of one bigger machine, creating imagery that goes beyond the frame.  She has also found interest in weather, atmosphere, and fleeting situations.  Besides her wide range of multiple concepts, Sze uses numerous types of technology to create her projects, for instance, lithography and silk screen.

Currently, Sze lives in New Yok and is a faculty member at the School of the Arts at Columbia University.  She teaches the Advances Printmaking Course with for the MFA program with her co-professors, Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond.  Sze has collected a large range of awards, including:the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2003); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2003); Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (1999); and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation award (1997).

• Print Title: Ripe Fruit Falling
• Date: 2012
• Medium: Laser-cut silkscreen paper with hand-painted pebbles, string and 4 blue pushpins
• Packaging Size: 47 x 19 1/2 x 1 in.
• Carrier: Coventry Rag
• Edition Size: 18

Way, Lindsey. Goodbye Band. Cut paper diorama. 2010. “HUSH”. http://www.lindseyway.com/artwork/09/images/09-full.jpg

Lindsey Way is an artist from Dunoon, Scotland and studied fine art and illustration at Pratt Institute. Although she is more known as a bassist in the band Mindless Self Indulgence, she is also a fine artist in the mediums of paint and paper.

In 2010, Way held an exhibition for her body of work called HUSH at the DARK DARK Science Gallery in Los Angeles. HUSH consists of thirteen cut paper dioramas. Her work reflects the concept of world art culture and the human condition, influenced by her experiences when touring the world with her band. This work, as featured below, has a sense of celebration in despair and life in death.

Way, Lindsey. Tears Explode Like Bombs. Cut paper diorama. 2010.“HUSH” http://www.lindseyway.com/artwork/02/images/02-full.jpg

Way relates to the theme of ‘Drawing into Space’ because she is drawing by using cut paper and displaying it into the 3D space as a diorama. Instead of drawing these artwork in 2D, she is creating space for these little worlds where these characters and celebrations exists.

http://www.lindseyway.com/about.html

Way, Lindsey. Hush 2. Cut paper diorama. 2010. “HUSH” http://www.lindseyway.com/artwork/07/images/fullsize.jpg

Way, Lindsey. Blaze The Butterflies. Cut paper diorama. 2010. “HUSH” http://www.lindseyway.com/artwork/05/images/05-full.jpg

Way, Lindsey. Miss Me A Little But Not For Long. Cut paper diorama. 2010. “HUSH”  http://www.lindseyway.com/artwork/04/images/04-full.jpg

To view all 13 dioramas: http://www.lindseyway.com/index.html

I found that I thoroughly enjoyed my McColl visit. It was very interesting to see all of these artist that have been doing their own work successfully for a while and to see it in a gallery setting. This is the first major show I have been to since becoming a student at UNCC and it made me interested to become involved in more openings. Out of all of the art work I viewed at the center I enjoyed Hollis work more than others. I particularly enjoyed her “Mushroom Cloud” piece in her studio and seeing the graphic novel at such a large printing level was interesting to. I am looking forward to my next visit to the McColl center and to see more work from these artist in the future.

Rebecca Ward was born in Texas in 1984, and now currently is working in New York. While Ward has a very diverse and interesting portfolio, I specifically wanted to focus on her large scale, and occasionally three-dimensional line and vector drawings. Her work (best seen in the installation Seventeen is Sharp, 2009) features 2d and 3d lines that interact with the wall and space of the location she creates the installation. Using colorful electrical tape, she gives life to flat lines, bringing them out to create abstract forms. Her use of line in 3d space reflects principles of two dimensional drawing, which brings additional depth and texture to her pieces as well. A series of diagonal 3d lines in space takes on the life of hatching from a 2d perspective, while creating visual texture from alternate views. Ward has a variety of other installations and pieces, but I think Seventeen is Sharp best demonstrates the idea of drawing into space.

Here are some examples of her work in Seventeen is Sharp:

Ward, Seventeen is Sharp, electrical tape, 2009

Ward, Seventeen is Sharp, electrical tape, 2009

Ward, Seventeen is Sharp, electrical tape, 2009

Official Website: http://rebeccaward.net/

Sheila Hicks is an incredibly skilled and experienced artist, having received her BFA and MFA from Yale University back in the 1950s and has been practicing since then to today. She was born in Nebraska but spent a lot of time in Central and South America thanks to a Fullbright scholarship to paint in Chile. Though she founded workshops in Chile, Mexico, and South Africa, she still wanted to travel and worked in Morocco and India before finally deciding to mostly settle in Paris where she spends most of her time today. Hicks has showed in both solo and group exhibitions or has artworks in museums across most of the globe including Brazil, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Santiago, Seoul, Jerusalem, London, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, and even Charlotte.

Her piece “Pillar of Inquiry” stands out to me as a 3D drawing, despite being fiber, because of the distinctive linear elements. As a huge cluster of cascading, thick strands, it has an appearance almost like dripping paint. They don’t fall completely straight, the strands having knots and twists in them, making it seem as if gravity is fighting to pull it but it fights back in little ways. As a 3D artwork, it is hard to deny that it is physically dimensional but it also falls down from a hole in the ceiling as if from a different plane of existence.

The work of Oliveira is focused on the shared qualities between sculpture and drawing. His sculpture are made out of wire. However, in perspective, the look as if they were an ink sketch drawn in space.

He is a constant present figure in international art fairs. His artistic background has brought him to experiment in wire. It all started as a sculpture major concentrating in ceramics; which later developed into a postgraduate in artistic anatomy focused in drawing.

Alexandro Farto, or more commonly known as Vhils, is a Portuguese artist whose work is presented all over the world. He is known for his street art which consist of carving the walls and exposing beautiful portraits of of locals.

He works around the idea of identity and how we are composed of a myriad of layers. This is represented by exposing the different layers of the wall as he carves the portrait