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The Drawing Center is a museum and a nonprofit exhibition space in
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, that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.


History

The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at the
Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...
Martha Beck in 1977, with the mandate of seeking to "express the quality and diversity of drawing -- unique works on paper -- as a major art form". It was originally housed in $900-a-month ground-floor space in a warehouse at 137 Greene Street in
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before it moved to its present location, on the ground floor of a 19th-century cast-iron-fronted building at 35 Wooster Street, in the late 1980s. In its first year, the Drawing Center attracted 125,000 visitors. After a $10 million renovation in 2012, designed by Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture & Urban Design, the museum today occupies two and a half floors, 50 percent more exhibition space.


Activities

Each year, the center presents "Selections" exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists as well as exhibitions of historical and contemporary drawing-based work. In conjunction with its interior expansion in 2012, the Drawing Center announced the start of a long-term initiative to exhibit Latin American drawing. The Drawing Room, located across the street from the Main Gallery, features dynamic, drawing-based installations and exhibitions by emerging and under-recognized artists. The center offers a range of public programs for both adults and children, including film screenings, literary readings, artist talks, symposia, performances, and ''The Big Draw'', a day-long event or series of events featuring artist-led drawing activities for all ages.


List of shows


Before 2010

* '' Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?'' * ''Selections Spring 2010: Sea Marks'' * ''Sun Xun: Shock of Time'' * ''Apparently Invisible: Selections Spring 2009'' * ''Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking'' * ''M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking on the Edge of the Visible'' * ''Greta Magnusson Grossman: Furniture and Lighting'' * '' Rirkrit Tiravanija: Demonstration Drawings'' * ''Kathleen Henderson: What If I Could Draw a Bird That Could Change the World?'' * ''Drawing on Film'' * '' Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities'' * ''Yüksel Arslan: Visual Interpretations'' * ''Drawing Out: Student Artwork from Drawing Connections'' * ''Selections Spring 2008'' * '' Sterling Ruby: CHRON'' * '' Alan Saret Gang Drawings, 2007''


2010

* "Day Job" group show: artists: Chris Akin, Pasquale Cortese, Elizabeth Duffy, Caroline Falby, Alex Gingrow, Tom Hooper, Alexa Horochowski, Michael Krueger, Shawn Kuruneru, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Mary Lydecker, Raul J. Mendez (PNCA ’97), Julia Oldham, Alex O’Neal, Roberto Osti, Zach Rockhill, Luis Romero, Alfred Steiner, Justin Storms, Harvey Tulcensky, Jonathan Wahl. * ''
Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced Abstract art, abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and Glass art, glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important con ...
, Lines which do not exist'' * ''Claudia Wieserm, Poems of the Right Angle'' * '' Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage'' * ''
Eva Hesse Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...
Drawing'' * '' Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?'' * ''Drawing Out: Student Artwork from the Drawing Connections Program'' * '' Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary'' * '' Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World'' * '' Unica Zürn: Dark Spring''


2011

* ''Pathways Drawing In, On, and Through the Landscape''group show:artists: Ann Carlson i Mary Ellen Strom, Mark Harris, Jessica Mein, Terry Nauheim, Candida Richardson, Gosia Wlodarczak * ''Drawing and its Double'', Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, group show:artists: Giorgio Ghisi, Lafrery Du Perac, Salvator Rosa,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric " ...
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Antonio Canova Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italians, Italian Neoclassical sculpture, Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was ins ...
, Giorgio Morandi, Piero Dorazio, Achille Perilli * Paolo Canevari, Decalogo * ''Drawn from Photography'' group show:artists: L Alvarez,
Andrea Bowers Andrea Bowers (born 1965), is an American artist working in a variety of media including video, drawing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including museums and galleries in Germany, Greece, and Tokyo. Her work wa ...
, Fernando Bryce, Sam Durant, Ewan Gibbs, Karl Haendel, Richard Forster, Serkan Ozkaya, Emily Prince, Frank Selby, Paul Sietsema, Mary Temple, Christian Tomaszewski ( C.T. Jasper)


2012

* Guillermo Kuitca, ''Diarios'' * José Antonio Suárez Londoño ''The Yearbooks'' * Sean Scully, ''Change and Horizontals''


2013

* ''Drawing Time, Reading Time''- group show: artists: Carl Andre, Pavel Büchler, Guy de Cointet, Mirtha Dermisache, Sean Landers, Allen Ruppersberg, Nina Papaconstantinou, Deb Sokolow, Molly Springfield. * William Engelen, ''Falten'' * Susan Hefuna and Luca Veggetti, ''NOTATIONOTATIONS'' * Terry Smith, ''Document'' * Giosetta Fioroni ''L’Argento'' * Alexandre Singh, ''The Pledge'' * Ignacio Uriarte, ''Line of Work'' * Ishmael Randall, ''Weeks, Cuts, Burns, Punctures''


2014

* Sari Dienes, ''Sari Dienes'' * Xanti Schawinsky, ''Head Drawings and Faces of War'' * ''Thread Lines'' group show:artists: Mónica Bengoa,
Louise Bourgeois Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...
, Sheila Hicks,
Ellen Lesperance Ellen Lesperance (born 1971) is an American artist and educator, known for her paintings. Her works are typically gouache paintings that pattern the full-body garments of female activists engaged in Direct Action protests. She is based in Portlan ...
, Kimsooja, Beryl Korot, Maria Lai, Sam Moyer, William J. O'Brien, Robert Otto Epstein, Jessica Rankin, Elaine Reichek, Drew Shiflett, Alan Shields,
Lenore Tawney Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher; May 10, 1907 – September 24, 2007) was an American artist working in fiber art, collage, Assemblage (art), assemblage, and drawing. She is considered to be a groundbreaking artist for the elevation o ...
and Anne Wilson * ''The Intuitionists'' group show:artists: : Shaun Acton, Valerio Berruti, A.J. Bocchino, Dana Boussard, Hannah Burr, Maria Bussman, Enrique Chagoya, Joyce Chan, Catalina Chervin, Hannah Cole, Kenny Cole, Vincent Colvin, Hollis Cooper, Cui Fei, Gabriel Delgado, Wendy DesChene, Asya Dodina i Slava Polishchuk, Debra Drexler, Derek Dunlop, Elisabeth Eberle, Lisa Endriss, Rodney Ewing, Tory Fair, Douglas Florian, Nicholas Fraser, Carl Fudge, Brett Goodroad, Barry Gray, Stephen Grossman, Nathan Haenlein, Patrick Earl Hammie, Skowmon Hastanan, HENSE, Elizabeth Hoak-Doering, Cynthia Ona Innis, Tatiana Istomina, Hedwige Jacobs, Chiaki Kamikawa, Manfred Kirschner, Kimia Kline, Nicholas Knight, Kang Joo Lee, Kate Tessa Lee, Cynthia Lin, Hung Liu, Maess, Mario Marzan, Linn Meyers, Nyeema Morgan, Paul Morrison, Seamus Liam O'Brien, Alison Owen, Jenny Perlin, Mel Prest, Jo Ann Rothschild, Anna Schachte, Fausto Sevila, Jill Shoffiet, Thomas Slaughter, Chris Spinelli, Karen Tam, Caroline Tavelli-Abar, Scott Teplin, Jen Urso, Kris Van Dessel,
Kara Walker Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores Race (classification of human beings), race, gender, human sexuality, sexual ...
and Margaret Withers. * ''Small'', group show: artists: Firelei Báez, Emmanouil Bitsakis, Paul Chiappe, Claire Harvey, Tom Molloy, Rita Ponce de León, Peggy Preheim, James Sheehan and Tinus Vermeersch * Lebbeus Woods, Architect *
Len Lye Leonard Charles Huia Lye (; 5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, ...
, ''Motion Sketch'' * Open Sessions, group show: artists: Eleanor Aldrich, Derek Dunlop, Heather Hart, Yara Pina, Andrew Ross, Lauren Seiden, Barbara Weissberger. *
Andrea Bowers Andrea Bowers (born 1965), is an American artist working in a variety of media including video, drawing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including museums and galleries in Germany, Greece, and Tokyo. Her work wa ...
i Suzanne Lacy''Drawing Lessons'' * Rashaad Newsome, ''FIVE'' * Deborah Grant, ''Christ You Know it Ain't Easy!!'' * Dickinson/Walser ''Pencil Sketches''


Management and funding

The Drawing Center named Laura Hoptman, a former curator at The Museum of Modern Art, Executive Director in 2018. In August 2005, the Drawing Center was considered one of the groups to occupy the World Trade Center. The plan was scrapped, and then the center's leadership spent a couple of years exploring a move to the South Street Seaport, where it planned to build a $60 million museum. By 2010 the museum decided to stay put and expand its Wooster Street home. Also in 2005, it was among 406
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arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the
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, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor
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. For the 2012 renovation, the
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was formed in November 2001, following the September 11 attacks, to plan the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan and distribute nearly $10 billion in federal funds aimed at rebuilding downtown Manhattan. ...
gave a $3 million grant, one of its largest contributions toward a single construction project. As of 2011, attendance was at 35,000 visitors a year. As of 2018, the center attracted 55,000 visitors a year.


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