Feynman Diagrams unify the many works in James Drake’s seventeenth exhibition with the gallery, Drawing, Reading and Counting. In the artist’s renown, virtuosic style, contemporary scientific examinations and mathematical expressions are overlaid with classical imagery of birds, insects, nudes, as well as candid renderings of some of the artist’s transsexual friends from Juarez, Mexico. The works are executed in pencil, ink and charcoal, and cutouts and stencils reveal poetry, blocks of text and other notations. These recent works have been described as a kind of “self-portrait of the conscious and possibly subconscious ephemera circling through the artist’s mind.” They are also examinations of contemporary issues of social injustice, the history of art and human history.
Galleries
James Drake
The Lengua of Nahuatl (Triptych)
2015
Charcoal, graphite, ink, collaged photos on paper
76 x 48 inches (each)
82 x 54 inches (each) framed
James Drake
I Want to Breathe Your Air (Triptych)
2016
Charcoal, graphite, ink, collaged photos on paper
76 x 48 inches (each)
82 x 54 inches (each) framed
James Drake
On and Off (Brenda and Samantha) (Diptych)
2015
Charcoal, graphite, ink, collaged photos on paper
76 x 72 inches (each)
82 x 78 inches (each) framed
James Drake
The Phenomenon of Propositions
2014
Charcoal, graphite, ink, tape on paper
90 x 60 inches
96 x 66 inches framed
James Drake
We Pant for Revelation
2016
Charcoal, ink, pastel, collage on paper
76 x 96 inches
82 x 102 inches framed
James Drake
Time to Time
2015
Charcoal, graphite, ink on book pages
76 x 96 inches
82 x 102 inches framed
James Drake
You Owe Me Money
2016
Charcoal on envelopes on paper
48 x 76 inches
54 x 82 inches framed
James Drake
Drawing and Counting
2014-15
Charcoal, graphite, pastel, ink, on paper and roofing paper
48 x 76 inches
54 x 82 inches framed
James Drake
The Artificial Computer
2015
Charcoal, graphite, ink on book pages
48 x 60 inches
54 x 66 inches framed
James Drake
The Anatomy of Counting and Position
2014-16
Charcoal, graphite, ink, pastel, book pages on paper
40 x 48 inches
46 x 54 inches framed