Dawn Clements

Dawn Clements explores a world of interiors, arduously rendering either her own immediate environment in a series of detailed and expressive drawings or capturing the staged sets of films and soap operas by continually replaying and carefully observing them.

Her recent drawing, "Travels with Myra Hudson", will span 46 feet in the Lower Gallery. This panoramic ink on paper depicts the many interior spaces that the main character inhabited in the 1952 film, "Sudden Fear". The drawing reads as a series of large film cells or a storyboard with one scene leading to the next. Three smaller drawings focus on the connecting his & hers bedrooms which are in pivotal in the story. Notations and observations are drawn in the borders, like clues about an implied narrative dropped along the way.

A separate drawing, "Desk", focuses on the close proximity and familiarity of the Clements home. A dense drawing of her desktop reflects her continued concentration on the domestic interior and its personal contents. The dynamic quality of Clements' line and the intensity of her vision create drawings that, regardless of their scale, make one wish the picture would continue on.

Clements' installation is in collaboration with an exhibition of her works at PIEROGI, November 19 - December 20, at 177 N 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, www.pierogi2000.com.

Dawn Clements