Nancy Rubins DRAWINGS

"I really like [that the drawings] caught every gesture. It caught the process. It caught the moment I existed in, keeping it there as you looked at it some time later. It embraced energy." (Excerpt from an interview of Nancy Rubins, MoMA Projects (49), January 26 - March 14,1995)

PAUL KASMIN GALLERY is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, NANCY RUBINS' DRAWINGS from MARCH 24 through APRIL 21, 2001.

Nancy Rubins, known primarily for her monumental, gravity-defying, towering sculptures of airplane parts, hot water heaters, mattresses and cakes, is one of the most innovative American artists working today. This upcoming exhibition will consist of nine of her drawings which are themselves, sculptural. Rubins' drawings engage the space which holds them; wrapping around or straddling corners, climbing to the ceiling and extending outwards from the wall up to three feet.

Tacked to the wall with push pins, the three-dimensional works consist of large, irregular, torn sheets of heavy paper which twist and overlap each other. Heavy gestural marks cover the entire surface of the paper, building layers of graphite up to a high luster which resemble sheets of metal rather than paper. This labor-intensive process which is implicit in the creation of the drawings, exudes an energy, much like her sculptures. The scale of each work varies from small, single sheet drawings to monumental, multi-layered sheets that cover the entire wall of the gallery.

Nancy Rubins' drawings are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

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Nancy Rubins DRAWINGS