BLOOMING a performance by Robert Janz

STARTING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 FROM NOON TO ONE O’CLOCK
CONTINUING EACH DAY UNTIL MAY 10

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The bud of a single flower is placed in a vase. Behind it, directly on the wall, I draw a large charcoal sketch of the flower. Each day I return, erasing and drawing again, stepping back and forth, adjusting my sketch to the changes that have taken place. As the flower stretches and blooms my drawing inevitably becomes denser and darker. Within ten days the flower is completely dead. My erasure remains as its visual history, its afterlife. At this point it is the drawing that blossoms. What began as fairly conventional image making becomes a deep expressive abstraction. Resonant with mortality.

Please visit us from April 23rd to May 10th between noon and one o'clock to see Robert in action, in TriBeCa at 13 Jay Street, NY, NY 10013. Closest subway is Chambers Street on the #1, 2 or 3 lines. Please call us for more information at: 212 925-9424