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Larger-than-life
Drawing Studies at Crosby Painting Studio -- Up Close
and Personal, an exhibition of fifteen color-pencil drawings
from life by Cynthia Maris Dantzic is now on display in the
Gallery at Crosby Painting Studio in SoHo, through January 12,
2005.
Individual
studies of larger-than-life-size heads, hands and feet fill
each 18"x 24" sheet of gray paper, showing the artist's close
proximity to her subjects, and resulting in unusual viewpoints
and perspective.
Dantzic,
a student of Josef Albers in the 50's, is currently Professor
of Art at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. She is the
author of several books on drawing and design. Her calligraphy,
drawings, paintings, photographs and photo-collages have been
collected, published and exhibited widely.
Artist
Lucian Krukowski, former Dean of the School of Art at Washington
University in Saint Louis, says of Dantzic's recent work, "Maturity
carries a permission to go on unpopular journeys. I would not
have thought that Cynthia Maris Dantzic, with her wide range
of concerns, would go so deep and so narrow, from Albers to
the German Renaissance, then back again through Schiele and
Lucien Freud."
An opening
reception for the artist will be held December 3, 4:30 to
7:30.
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