Study for OH, 1997 (6 original hand made drawings by D-L Alvarez for Drawing Center exhibition)

ALVAREZ, D-L

Published by By the Artist, The Drawing Center, N.Y. 1997, 1997

About this Item

These are 6 original drawings by the artist D-L Alvarez; none are signed as issued; a series of drawings for "Oh, 1997" exhibited at the "Selections Winter 1997" show at The Drawing Center in New York; two different series, one with just text and the other of tiny colored flowers with faces; 1) The Text series are pulled from a spiral note book, 3 sheets size: 3x5in, with the hand calligraphy text of OH, FEELING, and BEAUTIFUL, 2) the Flowers, 3 sheets size: 3-1/2x4in; TOTAL of 6 small drawings being sold together and with their original glycine envelope; edition size unknown but probably small since they are hand drawn; all in VERY GOOD COND. NOTES from the exhibition by the artist "I later choose to study set design and writing. This is evident in the work here, which is laden with narratives and allegories. Nested in nature, the drawings exploit the unnatural -our human tendency to force our condition onto everything (animated or not)."; BIO: Representing gallery: Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; COLLECTIONS: (selection): The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University Art Museum of Berkeley, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, New Museum of Contemporary Art. PUBLIC exhibitions: 2006 D-L Įlvarez in Zusammenarbeit mit Matthew Lutz-Kinoy ARRATIABEER, Berlin; 2004 D-L Alvarez / Rainer Kamlah - ORDINARY TRAVELERS Laura Mars Grp., Berlin; 2001 Contemporary Utopia Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art - LCCA, Riga Fresh - The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2000 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; 2000 Spring Thesis Exhibitions The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. TOTAL of 6 small drawings being sold together and with their original glycine envelope; PROVENANCE: drawings were laid out on the floor for viewers to take in Drawing Center in 1997; PLEASE NOTE: we are showing the section in the original exhibition catalogue for D-L Alvarez, but the drawings do not come with the exhibition's catalog; all the drawings are in VERY GOOD COND.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Study for OH, 1997 (6 original hand made drawings by D-L Alvarez for Drawing Center exhibition)
• Publisher: By the Artist, The Drawing Center, N.Y. 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Binding: No Binding
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
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