Ken Price and Terry Smith Exhibitions to Open 6/19 at The Drawing Center

Please join The Drawing Center on Tuesday, June 18 from 6-9pm for the opening reception of our Ken Price and Terry Smith exhibitions at 35 Wooster Street. No RSVP is required.

Main Gallery, Drawing Room
Ken Price: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper 1962-2010, the first comprehensive survey of drawings by the sculptor Ken Price (1935-2012). A Los Angeles and Taos-based sculptor, Price sustained a quiet storm of intense creativity with drawing that until recently remained under the art world's radar. Drawing has a time-honored status among sculptors as an expedient way to dream on paper without having to worry about an idea's material realization. For years Price drew with no audience in mind. Drawing functioned early on as a means to explore multiple themes, some decidedly sculptural, to visualize an object's physical properties and presentation, and, in some instances, to determine if it was worth tackling in clay. A selection of 65 works on paper tracks Price's dedication to drawing for more than 50 years and demonstrates his ongoing exploration of the medium. This exhibition will open concurrently on June 18 with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's presentation of the traveling retrospective of Price's sculpture that originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Slow and Steady Wins the Racewill be hosted at the Albright-Knox from September 27, 2013 to January 19, 2014, and at the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico, from February 22 to May 4, 2014.

The Lab
Terry Smith: Document is a gallery exhibition of photographs, drawings, film, and notebook from Smith's IDEAS CITY 2013 Site specific commission.

*Member's Only Viewing Hours - 5-6pm

Ken Price Credits: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper 1962-2010 is made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Major support for the exhibition and accompanying catalogue is provided by the Matthew Marks Gallery, Dedalus Foundation, James Corcoran, Tracy Lew, and Beth Rudin DeWoody. Additional funding is provided by Franklin Parrasch, Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, and Sara Szold.

Terry Smith Credits:: Capital Revisited is a project of DrawNow!, which is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Major support is provided by Faber-Castell.

Image: Detail from Ken Price, Untitled, 1992. Acrylic and ink on paper, 20 ¼ x 25 ¾ inches (51.4 x 65.4 cm). Museum of Modern Art: The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection.