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Poster for “We See Differently” exhibit at CUNY Lehman<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

If you’ve attended an open life drawing session, not a class where an instructor is steering everyone down a similar path but a practice session for artists of all levels, you’ve probably had the experience of walking around the room on the breaks and noticing how very differently different artists are responding to the same subject.\u00a0 Everyone is seeing basically the same thing, but\u00a0one will have bold hard slashing lines and another gentle clouds of color, in\u00a0one the model will appear serene while in another he looks angry, one will look like a study of classical sculpture and another like an acid hallucination.\u00a0 It’s a dramatic demonstration of the power of representational art to reveal not just the subject, but the subjectivity of the artist.<\/p>\n

Artist Daniel Galas<\/a>, currently in a graduate program at CUNY’s Lehman College<\/a> in the Bronx, has curated an exhibit<\/a> based on that idea.\u00a0 He organized\u00a0a free life drawing session, two days with the same model in the same pose, and invited a variety of artists to come to the session and submit their results for a show.\u00a0\u00a0The participants include\u00a0Lehman art students and artists Daniel met at Spring Studio <\/a>in Manhattan – the latter category includes me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The model, Tedra, took a classic\u00a0angular seated pose, with lighting\u00a0from both sides\u00a0and an Indian batik cloth as a backdrop.\u00a0 Here’s my first of four sketches from the session:<\/p>\n
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"We See Differently" #1, 2010, drawing by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In the following example, Lenward Snead captured Tedra’s strong face in profile:<\/p>\n

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"We See Differently", 2010, drawing by Lenward Snead<\/p><\/div>\n

Ray Rosario <\/a>focused on the angular structure of the arms and shoulders and let the face merge into a cloud of light that defines an inky shadow around the body:<\/p>\n

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"We See Differently", 2010, by Ray Rosario<\/p><\/div>\n

I got to know Kimchi Kim<\/a> back in the 1990’s, when she was a regular at my movement drawing sessions.\u00a0 She’s a specialist in loose and lively gestural figures.\u00a0 Kim made multiple studies of the model’s feet, curving in opposite directions like the fishlike forms in the Taegeuk<\/a> or yin-yang diagram.\u00a0 Kimchi Kim has a solo show <\/a>opening this month at Spring Studio.<\/p>\n

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"We See Differently", 2010, by Kimchi Kim<\/p><\/div>\n

James Horner<\/a> is an artist and writes about art for the examiner<\/a> website and his own blog<\/a>.\u00a0 I believe the linear shapes in his abstract painting are derived from the model’s pose, but he certainly didn’t feel constrained to restrict himself to a physical depiction!\u00a0 Nonetheless, the colors and forms here make me feel happy.<\/p>\n

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"We See Differently", 2010, by James Horner<\/p><\/div>\n

Daniel Galas<\/a>, the organizer of the session and its exhibit, was an abstract painter doing cathartic expressions of inner states until he began to feel the need for an external focus in his work, which led him to\u00a0take up\u00a0the classic themes of landscape and portrait.\u00a0 His portraits all feature a certain controlled distortion, but powerfully capture the individuality of his sitters.\u00a0 They also show a fascination with the textural specifics of pores and blemishes.\u00a0 Daniel cites El Greco <\/a>as an inspiration.\u00a0 To me, his work also evokes the cockeyed psychological realism of Alice Neel<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is Daniel’s very large-scale charcoal portrait of Tedra:<\/p>\n

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"We See Differently", 2010, by Daniel Galas<\/p><\/div>\n

I did a big face drawing too.\u00a0 It’s interesting to compare these two larger-than-life heads.\u00a0 To my eye, Daniel’s head of Tedra has the stony grandeur of an Easter Island moai<\/a>, whereas mine has a much softer, maybe sad quality.\u00a0 Notice the difference in the size of the eyes relative to the head.<\/p>\n

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"We See Differently" #2, 2010, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

These and many other visions from the same life drawing session will be on view in “We See Differently<\/a>” in the basement gallery of the Fine Arts Building at CUNY Lehman, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West in the Bronx.\u00a0 The opening reception is on Thursday, May 13, 2010, at 5 pm, and the show will remain on view through the Summer.<\/p>\n

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