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EXCERPT FROM A REVIEW BY KEVIN DUFFY, Cranbrook Academy of Art:

According to Vitamin D, a volume that compiles current artists who use drawing in their work, there are two principal aspects of drawing today: the conceptual, versus drawing as a feeling - a human experience. The conceptual point of view in drawing connects us as mark–makers to our primacy and our Neolithic ancestors. This idea “relates directly to conceptual art of the 60’s and 70’s,” due to its own tautological condition, drawing describing it’s nature and the flux state of completion.

Perhaps, the narrative illustrations he presents are fantasy and regardless of how you feel initially about the quality of these drawings, like or dislike, depending on your taste is irrelevant. They are not meant for consumption, not meant for passive viewing, but to be experienced, or to be part of an experience. Beyond even a narrative experience, but a performative one.

The crude high contrast drawings are about semiotics and attitude. The subtle complexity is not easily pinned down which makes this territory rich for discovery the further you invest in it.

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