DrawNow! Online! with Isabella Kapur

In this participatory drawing workshop, The Drawing Center's Curatorial Assistant and practicing artist Isabella Kapur speaks about drawings by Neo Rauch from the 2019 exhibition Neo Rauch: Aus dem Boden / From the Floor. Kapur discusses Rauch's understanding of form and narrative, and how he breaks rules in both those areas to create work that perplexes the viewer and draws them into his surreal compositions. The accompanying drawing exercise explores how to think about form differently through a simple technique Rauch uses in his own drawing practice.

This workshop was recorded via Zoom on May 7, 2020.

Example drawings by Neo Rauch from the 2019 exhibition Neo Rauch: Aus dem Boden / From the Floor.

Neo Rauch

In his twenties, Neo Rauch (b. Leipzig, 1960) studied figurative painting under painter Arno Rink at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, one of Germany’s oldest art schools, where he later became a professor. In 1993, Rauch had his first solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN+ART in Leipzig, and a few years later was featured by Galerie EIGEN + ART at the New York Armory Show, thus launching his career in the United States. Since, Rauch has been featured in several solo exhibitions in the United States at David Zwirner, New York (2000–2017), as well as at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2003) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2007). Internationally, Rauch has had mid-career retrospectives at Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

Credits

Free online programs are made possible by the Cy Twombly Foundation.The Drawing Center's Education and Community Programs are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Major support is provided by The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation. Additional support is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.