| Jeff
Blank-- This work begins at the American Museum of Natural History
in New York. Quick sketches of dinosaurs and extinct mammal skulls, notations
with intentional information gaps, become the basis for extensive and focused
studio work. Titled sequentially in homage to each fossil’s discoverer,
the drawings are as much about the practice and process of drawing as they
are about representation. As much about the romance of exploration as they
are about Protoceratops or Proboscidea. Each is precisely incorrect, all
surface detail invented, a fossil record of hours, days and weeks spent
drawing in the studio. |
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