Diane Farris Gallery is pleased to be participating in the second annual drawing festival, Drawn. The Primary Mark will showcase new works by gallery artists with a focus on how artists develop ideas, images, and techniques through drawings. Featured artists include John Dennison, Angela Grossmann, Natty Saidi and Vicky Marshall. Alongside the works in the show will be display cases featuring sketch books and studies by various gallery artists including Pat Service and John Dennison.

Opening Reception: Thursday September 9, 6 – 8 pm

Featuring works by Fiona Ackerman, Nick Lepard and Wil Murray Pushing the Edge explores how these emerging artists are pushing the limits of paint. Ackerman uses thin layers of paint to build lyrical abstracts with organic drips and flows, structured motifs and painterly strokes. Nick Lepard, a 2008 ECUAD graduate, pushes and splashes oils across his canvases to form larger-than-life portraits approaching the boarder of representation and abstraction. Merging traditionally flat painting surfaces with sculptural elements, Murray pours and collages acrylic paint in three dimensional works that reveal their construction. Exposed supports and moulded forms jut from the confines of the frame.