photo from the New American Paintings flickr stream
"West 4th St", 62" x 57" inches, graphite on paper, 2009
"Racine Street", 61"x74" inches, graphite on paper, 2009
"Lincoln Ave", 60" x 81" inches, graphite on paper, 2010
"Fuller Street", 54" x 70" inches, graphite on paper, 2010
"State Street", 100" x 88" inches, graphite on paper, 2010From Matthew Woodward's statement;
"Over the last year I have been building a body of work around an architectural era that is disappearing from the American cityscape. The ironwork and moldings represented in these pieces hearken back to the American Renaissance and the Beaux-Arts movement of the turn of the twentieth century, which employed the conventions and characteristics of European Renaissance classicism to glorify the advent of a new Golden Age of progress through industrialism; a progress that itself constantly, necessarily and ironically shed all accoutrements of the past in order to advance and perpetuate its own motion. "See more from the statement, show here.
3 comments:
love drawings. now if only people would buy them...
Woodward's work puts me in mind of Jim Dine's tools— both are unapologetically sentimental while still resonating as vigorous and vital.
Thanks for sharing these drawings.
I agree Jeffrey - I was reminded of Dine with these drawings as well. I couldn't have described it better than you did - "unapologetically sentimental while still resonating as vigorous and vital."
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