Selections Spring 1997
February 20 – March 29, 1997
ViewTacita Dean: The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days
February 20 – March 29, 1997
Tacita Dean: The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days was The Drawing Room's inaugural exhibition, located at 40 Wooster Street. The exhibition featured chalk drawings on blackboard, with Tacita Dean writing, "The blackboard drawings relate to film. The language they use is the language of framing and editing, and they are cinematic in scale. The images are drawn and redrawn in chalk, and the traces that remain hint at a movement through time within the frame of each board. The drawings work with maritime space, adopting the grandeur of the epic sea movie but giving a disrupted sense of narrative more appropriate to large scale storyboards and location notes than to stills from a finished movie."
Artworks and Installation Photography
Ephemera
Records and Correspondence
Credits
The Drawing Center received support from the following sources: The Bohen Foundation, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Fifth Floor Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Lannan Foundation, Abby and Mitch Leigh Foundation, The Appleman Foundation, Frances and Thomas Dittmer, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, The New York Times Company Foundation, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, William D. Rollnick and Nancy Ellison Rollnick Foundation, Alexandra & Stephen Bowes, The Chase Manhattan Bank, Christie's, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Cowles Charitable Trust, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Fidelity Investments, Lawrence Gagosian, Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, The Lauder Foundation, Robert P. Miller, J.P. Morgan & Co., Philip Morris Companies Inc., The Overbrook Foundation, Katharine and WIlliam Rayner, Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn, Saul Rosen Foundation, Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation; with significant support from The Institute for Museum Services, The National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts; and all of our Friends and Members.