Drawing Space in New York

Kentler International Drawing Space, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is dedicated to bringing important and timely contemporary drawings and works on paper to the public by local, national and international artists, as part of the cultural fabric of the community. The Kentler Flatfiles, consisting of drawings and works on paper by over 160 artists, are available for viewing by curators, collectors and the general public by appointment. The Kentler gallery, founded by artists Florence Neal and Scott Pfaffman, opened its doors in April of 1990 and quickly became the focus of a burgeoning artists community in this historic, inspiring, yet challenging area of the New York City.

The gallery is located in a storefront space which faces Van Brunt Street, a busy commercial avenue. The building was built in 1877 by the Kentler family as a men's haberdashery which served the Brooklyn seaport business workers. Today the neighborhood is a lively mix of Black, Hispanic, Italian, and Irish families, public schools, parks, waterfront piers and churches. The gallery is especially accessible to the public, as its glass doors face a bus stop, attracting notice and visitors who would otherwise have little opportunity to meet artists or to see new works of art.

The gallery sponsors monthly and bi-monthly exhibitions featuring solo, group shows and installations by some of New York's most exciting emerging and under-recognized artists. Shows drawn from the international community have given travelling artists an opportunity to visit America and bring their work to a New York audience. An announcement card, a press release and photo or video documention accompanies each show. The gallery is open to the public Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12 - 5pm. Exhibition dates, hours, Artist /Curator talks and special events will be listed in our web site under current exhibition.

http://www.kentlergallery.org

C4RD :London's museum space for drawing

Nick and Phill Goss

Drawing: imagination on line

Drawing as an approach is regaining the importance it once had as a way of thinking or acting that is fundamental to the human experience. It is being considered less as a particular use of materials or sub-activity of a particular discipline, and more as an approach discrete in itself.

C4RD’s purpose is to make space for drawing - to maintain the visibility of a characteristically humanist approach that is drawing - in the encouragement and refinement of understanding of drawing the arts and society at large can benefit. C4RD seeks to facilitate access and dialogue for current drawing practice independent of structural forces in commercial and institutional settings. Drawing defined as the exercise of the imagination on line reinforces drawing’s capacity as a performed analogy (mentally/manually) of the continuum that is human consciousness; two marks, as in mathematics, necessarily make a line.

Centre for Recent Drawing is London’s museum space for drawing. Since 2004 C4RD has provided a public exhibition space and exhibition series that is independent and non-commercial. C4RD is in the unique position of being able to provide a whole building dedicated to drawing - showing continuous exhibitions of a broad variety of drawing practice - and also be able to house residencies specifically for those for whom drawing is a core part of their practice. This is in addition to the C4RD web presence, the C4RD Community registry, publications (D4RD and Z4RD) and Online Residencies.

C4RD welcomes all those with a particular interest in drawing as a core experience from within and outside the arts. It seeks a balanced programme to present a broad variety of expansive possibilities in drawing. More information on our programmes is available on this website. C4RD is staffed and funded by the generosity of individuals and private and corporate donors, and is a UK Registered Charity and member of the Museums Association.

Andrew Hewish

Director

http://www.c4rd.org.uk

Drawing Spaces in Lisbon

Drawing Spaces is a project space located at Fábrica Braço de Prata, in Lisbon, that seeks to promote investigative practices related to the subject of drawing. This project supports collaborations between artists and researchers from Portugal and artists and researchers from abroad. Drawing Spaces involves 22 artistic residencies and exhibitions; a series of lectures and debates; and various activities for art students and the general public related to the subject of drawing.

http://drawingspacesen.weebly.com