los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: The “Terra Nullis; Delinquent Vernacular” drawing series chronicles 5 fictional characters throughout agrarian history, pairing drawings and narrative with various topics of research. The Jepeto Rambunctious drawings are 3′ to 6′ long ink-alchemy mixtures. Made of ink, water, salt, and wax Rambunctiouos’ drawings were developed as alternative organizational strategies intended to challenge the inelastic Jeffersonian grid of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

THE ARTLESS DRAWING: NEIL DENARI, 1982-1996
IN ASSOCIATION WITH UCLA ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
OPENING RECEPTION SUNDAY JUNE 6, 2010, 6:30-8:30PM PUBLIC RECEPTION IN CONJUNCTION WITH ACHIM FREYER SATURDAY JUNE 19, 7-9PM EXHIBITION RUNS THROUGH JULY 15, 2010

Image Credits:
Neil Denari, Tokyo International Forum Competition, 1989
Pantone color (seafoam green, bright orange, grey, red and blue) and Zip-A-Tone on Photostatic print
copyright Neil Denari – please do not reproduce without permission for the artist

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: terra nullis means ‘no man’s land’ in latin.  it was
used by 18th century european colonists who took land from australian
aborigines who saw no evidence of settlement, such as agricultural or
religious structures. the european colonists concluded that the native
people did not ‘own’ the land, merely roamed it.

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new york NEW YORK

zak SMITH is a punk rock porn star trapped in the body of a classically trained artist. his work is scattered with mohawks and tattooed nude bodies while at the same time maintaining an unrelenting rigor that makes his work hard to ignore. smith’s use of selective vibrant colors against stark black and white drawings fill his pages almost to the point of overflow. often working at the scale of a post card sized image, smith meticulously details every centimeter of the page with overlapping fields of patterns. the contact sheet of smaller images forms a larger piece amplifying the impressive density. the flicker between the single images and the overall composition allows the patterns and colors to create a multiplicity of figures at various scales.

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seattle WASHINGTON

most of us use sharpie pens to label our cds while justine ashbee employs them exclusively in her organically grown hand drawn creations. she lets each work begin with a single curve from which squishy, pulsating creatures emerge. through the accumulation of line, ashbee creates images non-linear in both process and form. her use of color and line weight give the drawings a sense of space as her forms undulate and pass through each other.

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