National Portrait Gallery presents Portraiture Now. Drawing on the Edge, an exhibition on view Nov. 16 through Aug. 18, 2013.
This exhibition, the seventh installation of the Portrait Gallery’s dynamic “Portraiture Now” series, will explore the work of Mequitta Ahuja, Mary Borgman, Adam Chapman, Ben Durham, Till Freiwald and Rob Matthews. These artists expand the narrow boundaries that once defined drawing and portraiture. Probing the intersection between drawing and photography, painting, video, textual writing and computer technology, all six artists show a commitment to direct, immediate, highly personal mark-making. Each of them employs a painstaking technique; their meticulous, repetitive actions result in a contemplative, almost meditative, engagement with process that adds a psychological depth to their work.
The exhibition curators are: Interim Director and curator of prints and drawings Wendy Wick Reaves; chief curator Brandon Brame Fortune; associate curator of prints and drawings, Anne C. Goodyear; associate curator of photographs, Frank H. Goodyear III; assistant curator of painting and sculpture, Dorothy Moss; and historian David C. Ward. – www.npg.si.edu
