The Drawing Center’s upcoming season launches with Drawing Sound, two events that look at the intersection of drawing, sound, and performance-based art. Billy Martin and String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim) will curate multi-night performances in July and September, respectively. Also this summer, Robin Rhode will partner with a group of children ages 8-10 years to create a large-scale mural of the high seas in The Lab. In September, Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s will be the first in-depth consideration of Pousette-Dart’s drawings from that period, and Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men aims to deepen our understanding of this influential artist’s work by highlighting a question at the core of his practice: what constitutes a material gesture and how does it make meaning?

Early 2016 highlights include Louise Despont‘s first solo show in a New York museum—she will present a new site-specific, large-scale architectural installation The Subtle Body and Circulatory Drawings—as well as Jennifer Bartlett: Hospital, an exhibition of a series of recent pastels that continue Bartlett’s long-term exploration of interior landscapes. The season continues with “Please Make This Look Nice”: The Graphic Design Process as an Act of Drawing in which a simulated graphic design studio will be installed in The Drawing Center’s Lab. In Spring 2016, Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection will present over a hundred works by more than sixty artists in drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation, re-examining conceptual art and the parameters of the drawn medium through the organizing lens of one of its greatest practitioners. Throughout the season the works of Open Sessions artists will be on view in an ongoing series of exhibitions. And next June, The Drawing Center will host an exhibition and programs associated with the 2016 Prix Canson, one of the most prestigious drawing prizes in the world, from June 20 – July 1, 2016.

At The Drawing Center 
Drawing Sound – Part I, July 8–10, 2015
Open Sessions, July 17–August 30, 2015
Open Sessions 4, July 17–August 14, 2015
Robin Rhode: Drawing Waves, July 17–August 14, 2015
Drawing Sound – Part II, September 9–11, 2015
Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s, October 2–December 20, 2015
Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men, October 2–December 20, 2015
Open Sessions 5, October 2– October 25, 2015
Open Sessions 6, November 12 – December 20, 2015
Louise Despont: The Subtle Body and Circulatory Drawings, January 22–March 20, 2016
Jennifer Bartlett: Hospital, January 22–March 20, 2016
“Please Make This Look Nice”, February 19–March 20, 2016
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, April 15–June 12, 2016
2016 Prix Canson, June 20–July 1, 2016