Sea Marks: Selections Spring 2010

Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition, Sea Selections Spring 2010 features the work of Agnes Barley, Jerome Marshak, and Peter Matthews, three artists who notate, describe, and interpret aspects of the sea. The publication examines the capacity of drawing to represent something as dynamic, volatile, and vast as the ocean. All three artists use distinctly different interpretive strategies that yield a range of unexpected results, expanding our understanding of how drawing acts as a descriptive system and means of interpretation. This volume, number 89 in the Drawing Papers series, includes an introduction by artist and exhibition curator Nina Katchadourian, as well as an essay by D. Graham Burnett, editor at Cabinet magazine and professor at Princeton University.