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Ryan Salge’s Skillful Drawings Capture Life’s Ephemeral Qualities

Ryan Salge's drawings capture the ephemeral: Not only the fleeting, small moments in people's lives, but ever-evolving environmental factors like clouds, smoke, snow, and light, as well. Often set in suburbia, his skillfully rendered graphite drawings offer brief glimpses into his characters' lives, where select details make the scene appear slightly out of the ordinary. Often, he organizes them like diptychs or triptychs, revealing details in ways that aren't quite obvious, like clever editing in a film.

Ryan Salge’s drawings capture the ephemeral: Not only the fleeting, small moments in people’s lives, but ever-evolving environmental factors like clouds, smoke, snow, and light, as well. Often set in suburbia, his skillfully rendered graphite drawings offer brief glimpses into his characters’ lives, where select details make the scene appear slightly out of the ordinary. Often, he organizes them like diptychs or triptychs, revealing details in ways that aren’t quite obvious, like clever editing in a film.

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Anna Park, Charcoal, drawing

April 23, 2019

Anna Park’s charcoal drawings are kinetic and absorbing, each scene embedded in crowd activity. The action seems to move between revelry and violence, the faces of her subjects distorted and disappearing. The artist also integrates varying sensibilities into these works and moves between cartoonish and realistic rendering.

Carles G.O’D.’s Provocative Work at Center of Show in Italy

Carles G.O’D., comics, drawing

May 22, 2019

Known for his lush and provocative illustrations and comics, Spanish artist Carles G.O’D. is the center of a major show at Tabularasa Tekè Gallery in Italy next month. “Closer to Heaven" kicks off on June 14 in the space and runs through Aug. 3. The massive trove of works on display include original drawings, comic pages, prints from his major projects, and more.

Hui Chi Lee’s Abstract, Largescale Pen and Pencil Works

drawing, Hui Chi Lee

April 13, 2016

Taiwanese artist Hui Chi Lee presents a peculiar image of the human figure. She crowds her drawings with masses of bodies lumped together and entangled in threads and strands of human hair. Full of energy, her images explore themes relating to materialism, human behaviors, and relationships in today's society, made all the more dynamic when implemented in a larger than life scale. Working mainly in pen, graphite and colored pencil on paper, her choice to use non-traditional painting materials ties with her goal as an artist: simply to create imagery that will inspire a curiosity about the implications of her work.

Preview: Mike Giant’s “Colorado” at FFDG

Colorado, drawing, FFDG, Mike Giant

February 10, 2015

With a new piece dated every few days between November 2014 and January 2015, Mike Giant's latest series of drawings serves as a map of the current state of the artist's life. Though Giant is originally from New Mexico, his name is synonymous with the San Francisco graffiti and tattoo scenes, where he developed himself as an artist in the 1990s and 2000s. With rapid gentrification squeezing out many of San Francisco's creative enclaves, Giant relocated to Boulder, Colorado two years ago. His upcoming solo show, "Colorado," opens at FFDG in San Francisco on February 13, meditates on various transitions in Giant's life — his move halfway across the country, the end of a relationship, and various shifts in his lifestyle choices.

Ryan Salge’s Skillful Drawings Capture Life’s Ephemeral Qualities

Anna Park’s Startling Charcoal Drawings

Carles G.O’D.’s Provocative Work at Center of Show in Italy

Hui Chi Lee’s Abstract, Largescale Pen and Pencil Works

Preview: Mike Giant’s “Colorado” at FFDG

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