Chi Birmingham: Recent Drawings

This first group is my most recent work, and the drawings I am most excited about. All of them follow the same basic procedure of starting with a single image, and snowballing outwards without too much forethought as to meaning until the space of the drawing is populated in an interesting way. The titles refer to themes that I saw developing in the work as it happened.

Action Drawing
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
18" x 24"

Horror Montage
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Robot Games
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

I Want to Believe
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

The following group of drawings are more traditionally composed scenes inspired by moments in History. The Great Depression, the forming of the Spanish Armada, and the backwoods-bohemian culture of Big Sur in the 30's and 40's.

Hooverville
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Armada
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Provisions
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Phonograph
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Reading Room
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Splitwood
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Woodstove
2008
White Charcoal, Graphite and Ink on Paper
6" x 9 1/2"

Finally, a handful of portraits mainly inspired by the two-tone illustrations of contemporary alternative comic book artists I have been looking at.