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January 9, 2019
Andy Smith

The Narrative Drawings of So PineNut

Tokyo artist So PineNut’s stirring drawings pull from spiritual influences. Often referencing figures and narratives from the Bible, the works carry darker Judeo-Christian themes rendered with both ancient and contemporary characters. The artist's practice includes these graphite works, plus painting, graphic novels, printmaking, pottery, and more.

Tokyo artist So PineNut’s stirring drawings pull from spiritual influences. Often referencing figures and narratives from the Bible, the works carry darker Judeo-Christian themes rendered with both ancient and contemporary characters. The artist’s practice includes these graphite works, plus painting, graphic novels, printmaking, pottery, and more.

Familiar tales conveyed in some way include the Garden of Eden, Babel, and Noah’s Ark. The artist’s identifying text with works offers clues into otherwise surrealist imagery. On the artist’s Instagram accounts, he offers insights into the creation of these series, with both process photos and examinations of the detailed corners of a given work.

See more work by the artist below.

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drawing, graphite, So PineNut

drawing, illustration, Rachel Fagiano

January 2, 2015

Rachel Fagiano subsumes her characters in copious fungal growths that tower over them like enormous headpieces. The artist draws with a combination of micropigment ink and graphite on paper. Her colorful, trippy-looking mushrooms stand out against the white backgrounds. Fagiano's characters seem to be in constant conflict with one another, though it's unclear for what reason. They pinch, hit, and choke each other in a blind rage — perhaps hinting at the senselessness of violence. Her work evokes that of Chinese artist Zhou Fan, whom we covered on the blog previously here.

Nicola Alessandrini’s Unsettling Graphite Drawings

drawing, graphite, Nicola Alessandrini

November 3, 2018

Using just a pencil and paper, Nicola Alessandrini crafts striking, surreal imagery that explore the subconscious. The Italy-born artist creates scenes in which intimate figures are unraveled, producing strange growths and stripped of their normal defenses. Gender and sexuality also often play a role in Alessandrini’s works, as well as totems from childhood.

Olivia Kemp’s Enormous Pen Drawings

drawing, Olivia Kemp, pen drawing

October 20, 2017

Olivia Kemp’s massive drawings, mostly rendered in pen, contain a preposterous amount of detail. Her work often contains historical structures enveloped by the natural world. The drawings can take months at a time to complete.

Ethan Murrow’s Graphite Drawings Merge Surrealism and the Sublime

art, drawing, Ethan Murrow

June 26, 2014

Drawing and performance art are rarely seen as complementary media, but Ethan Murrow's large-scale graphite drawings begin as performance collaborations with his wife, Vita Weinstein Murrow. The two began working together in 2004 and the source imagery they gather for their videos often inspires Murrow's detail-oriented works on paper. His drawings come with the heavy feeling of the aftermath of disaster.

The Narrative Drawings of So PineNut

Rachel Fagiano’s Drawings Overflow with Fanciful Mushroom Growths

Nicola Alessandrini’s Unsettling Graphite Drawings

Olivia Kemp’s Enormous Pen Drawings

Ethan Murrow’s Graphite Drawings Merge Surrealism and the Sublime

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