MEL KENDRICK: Water Drawings
Past exhibition
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Overview
"There’s a constant exchange that gives [the drawings] an internal logic. When I make sculpture, it’s the same thing.”
Mel Kendrick
David Nolan Gallery is excited to present a new body of work by Mel Kendrick. On view from January 16 through March 1, the exhibition will include 20 works on paper.
The art critic Meghan Dailey has recently written about these new works:
Kendrick describes and often makes his works on paper in sculptural terms. For the past year, he’s been pursuing what he calls “Water Drawings,” a series of cast-paper drawings comprising two 40-by-60-inch sheets created at Dieu Donné papermaking workshop in New York. A black pigment-coated mold is pressed into a soft mass of wet pulp, and under the force of the press the pigment spreads into the paper and binds with it.
The resulting sheets are weighty-looking reliefs, with deep imprints and overlapping forms that resemble topographical views, like lakes or islands seen from an airplane window. There’s also a kind of transparency to the overlapping forms, a sense of looking through one thing and connecting to another. In the act of looking, “what’s on top becomes the bottom. There’s a constant exchange that gives them an internal logic,” says Kendrick. “When I make sculpture, it’s the same thing.”
Kendrick’s first solo show at Artists Space was in 1974 and since then, he has shown in close to 50 solo shows and numerous group shows. In 1984, his work was included in the “The International Survey of Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art and the following year in the Whitney Biennial. In 2008, he was awarded the Francis J. Greenburger Award and other honors include the Academy Award for Art from the American Academy of Arts.
Kendrick's work can be found in numerous permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Installation Views
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Mel KendrickDouble Water Drawing 8/7/13 (A), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment80 x 60 in (203.2 x 152.4 cm)
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Mel KendrickDouble Water Drawing 8/7/13 (B), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment80 x 60 in (203.2 x 152.4 cm)
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Mel KendrickDouble Water Drawing 10/16/13 (C), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment80 x 60 in (203.2 x 152.4 cm)
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Mel KendrickDouble Water Drawing 10/16/13 (D), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment80 x 60 in (203.2 x 152.4 cm)
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Mel KendrickWater Drawing (A), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment60 x 40 in (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
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Mel KendrickCell (C), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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Mel KendrickCell (D), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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Mel KendrickCell (E), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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Mel KendrickCell (G), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
framed: 33 3/4 x 25 3/4 x 1 3/4 in (85.7 x 65.4 x 4.4 cm) -
Mel KendrickCell (H), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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Mel KendrickCell (I), 2013cast paper and carbon black pigment30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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Mel KendrickRed Wall #6, 2013mahogany and Japan color29 x 40 x 8 in (73.7 x 101.6 x 20.3 cm)
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Press
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Mel Kendrick, "Water Drawings"
Time Out New York January 7, 2014The noted sculptor presents a series of works on paper created by pressing liquid pulp into molds coated with black pigment. The works' layered abstract imagery recalls metal grates of... -
Mel Kendrick
Art in America February 13, 2014A vibrant show of Mel Kendrick’s recent works, “Water Drawings” features an abstract wood sculpture centered around a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. The stained red mahogany Red Wall #6... -
Gallery Chronicle
James Panero · The New Criterion February 1, 2014A final word about “Mel Kendrick: Water Drawings” now at David Nolan. I reported on these creations last month in my chronicle of the Miami fairs, where David Nolan first...
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