Exhibition
Ewan Gibbs: New York / Chicago
25 Apr 2019 – 29 Jun 2019
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
by appointment - Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
by appointment - Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
by appointment - Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
by appointment
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 1018 Madison Avenue, 2nd floor
- New York
New York - NY 10075
- United States
About
Richard Gray Gallery is pleased to present New York / Chicago, a solo exhibition of drawings by British artist Ewan Gibbs at the gallery’s New York location from April 25 to June 29, 2019.
Renowned British artist Ewan Gibbs creates intimately scaled portraits of the built environment. Working from photographs taken during his travels, Gibbs carefully renders images of urban landmarks using his methodical drawing technique. The resulting images infuse the iconic manufactured exteriors of the city with an inner nostalgia and demand close observation.
New York / Chicago presents a recent body of work comprising parallel but distinct series of drawings that are based on the artist’s personal encounters in the two cities. Each drawing contains thousands of minuscule pen and pencil marks and pinpricks—a system developed by Gibbs over twenty-five years ago after seeing knitting patterns containing various graphic symbols within a large, organized grid. Justly described by the late and celebrated art educator and critic James Yood, “the allure of Gibbs’s maniacally rendered [illustrations] stems from the stunning difficulty of his task, the monklike patience it requires, and the bravura skill he brings to bear.”