Stephen Posen

New York, March 2006—The Drawing Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by New York artist Stephen Posen to open in its Drawing Room May 6. Posen's ambitious new drawing installation will explore scale, color, and the quality of line, engaging the walls, ceiling, and floor of the space, as well as the street outside it, with a circular trace of movement that has spatial, metaphorical, and poetic resonances. The title Dancer/Mirror refers to the relationships between movement and stasis, gesture and structure, and artist and viewer. Assembling individual drawings in small groupings, Posen will push his own conventions to bold conclusions, with drawings on all six surfaces of the room seeming to float, becoming alternately transparent and concrete. The entire space will thus be shaped and bent to expressive purposes, generating a sense of celebration, fluidity, and vibrant play between containment and expansion.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Stephen Posen was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA from Yale. Posen’s drawings and paintings were featured in the 1972 Whitney Biennial and Documenta V (1972) and in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University Art Gallery. The artist’s work is represented in numerous public and private collections.

PUBLICATION For the exhibition, The Drawing Center will publish a 24-page issue of its Drawing Papers series. Drawing Papers 62: Stephen Posen will sell for $20 and will feature an essay by art critic and scholar Dore Ashton as well as 12 color illustrations of the artist’s street drawing and installation.

ARTIST’S TALK Stephen Posen will give a free artist’s talk in the Drawing Room on Saturday, May 20 at 4 pm. Please check the website for updated information.

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Stephen Posen: Dancer/Mirror