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Black Dancer Drawing

Warren Criswell

United States

Drawing, Graphite on Paper

Size: 6 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This was an experiment in black on black - graphite on black paper - and the beautiful black dancer at Circe's was a perfect subject. The contrast comes mostly from the reflectivity of the graphite, rather than from its absorption of light as in a normal drawing. So that when viewing the drawing from certain angles to the light source, the dancer almost disappears. (See additional image.) But not quite. PANDORA'S BOX These drawings range from 1985 to the present. Many are studies for paintings or sculptures, but all are on the front line of my discovery of the visible world. I had dumped the camera cold turkey and started carrying a sketch pad with me everywhere. I felt like I was learning to draw all over again. As Holmes said of Watson, I had seen but I had not observed. Now I began observing not only common, everyday things that had been hiding in plain sight, and dark forbidden places which I saw as temples of erotic worship, but also the images in my head, emerging out of books or music, and trying to translate it all into marks on paper. So now, like Pandora, I am releasing them from the box.

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Drawing:

Graphite on Paper

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

6 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

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"I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) --- “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) --- Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College; the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas; and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. --- In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.

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