The Drawing Center

In 1962 at the Ealing School of Art, artist Stephen Willats participated in Roy Ascott’s Ground Course which inventively taught the principles of so-called “organic abstraction.” In Ascott’s class, Willats was introduced to the ways in which cybernetics and systems thinking can be used to analyze social behavior and how this might inform art. These concerns would guide Willats’s practice over the following decades. About his diagrammatic drawings, Willats explained, “The circle is like a ball of thought. Everything goes into it, and everything comes out—only differently.”

Works like 2019's "Travelling with the Good Connector," on view in "Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena" propose speculative networks for transcending human constructs of time and dimensionality.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and plan your visit to our current exhibitions "Voice of Space" and "Trisha Donnelly."

The Drawing Center is celebrating the final days of "John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography" and "Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin" with special extended hours from 12-8pm through Sunday, May 11.

Don't miss your chance to visit these exhibitions before they close this Sunday! As always, admission to The Drawing Center is free for all visitors, thanks to the generous support of the Cy Twombly Foundation.

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Please click link in my profile for my review of what is one of the best shows in New York of the decade. A show that has the aesthetic DNA to open a hundred possible doors for thousands of artists. “The Way I See It” may do that for art. This show should be expanded into a Musuem show.
I now see Brian Donnelly’s work, aka KAWS, the way I see the paintings of Bob Dylan. Because his overall project is so compelling that I accept all of it as part of the whole.
The first pics are the wild man Joe Coleman whose work I have looked at for decades. The second batch of pictures is of the great - a perfect t “Homage to Jerry Saltz” in which this neurodivergent artist reproduces my life in the form of my Instagram posts, my own work, my life as a long-distance truck driver and more that she gleaned from YouTube clips of me.
See this show. Thank me later.
Thank you and the staff of the
(At least, click the damn link so my editors think people read an article critic. Refresh your browser if you hit a paywall. Don’t tell anyone.) has one of the best eyes for art I have ever seen.