SARATOGA SPRINGS — Skidmore’s Schick Art Gallery presents “Graphite Vision,” a 15-artist exhibition of extraordinary works made from ordinary graphite. The opening reception will be held 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, March 24 at the Schick Gallery, located in Saisselin Art Center on the Skidmore College campus.
Works on view range from eccentric, visionary drawings by outsider artists M’onma and Karel Havlicek to subtle still-life vignettes by Catherine Murphy. Some drawings, like Pete Schulte’s geometric arrangements in grays and blacks, are grounded in abstraction; others address the human form, such as Robert Bauer’s delicate, pensive portraits. Renée French’s tiny drawings of peculiar zoomorphic beings offer a whimsical counterpoint to Anne Lindberg’s austere drawings composed of layered lines.
Most Graphite Vision works are drawings on paper, but the exhibition also includes Seana Reilly’s artist’s books, featuring fluid patterns traversing stark white pages, and Jessica Drenk’s sculptures, columnar agglomerations of thousands of bright yellow pencils.
Artists Matt Bollinger and Anne Lindberg will participate in a talk at 6 p.m. during the opening reception.
