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Black and White: Portrait Drawings

April 5, 2007- May 12, 2007

Diane Edison

George Adams Gallery

525 W 26th St

Main Gallery: Diane Edison Throughout her career, Diane Edison has focused on making portraits and self-portraits in colored pastels and pencil and from time to time, in oil on panel. Recently, however, she began to work in white pencil on black paper, a decision that has enabled her to focus on volume, light and shade. As Edison states in the accompanying exhibition catalogue "The process of chiaroscuro shading on the black paper is slower than working on white paper, but working reductively allows me to cover more ground the first time around and I get to see the ghost of the image evolve."

The current series, which began in 2005 with a portrait of Willie Cole, her colleague at the University of Georgia, consists of twelve portraits, rendered large-scale, of members of her family, fellow artists and friends, all male.

Portraits of her father and one of her brothers represent Edison¹s family. Along with Willie Cole, other colleagues include artists Luis Cruz Azaceta and Jim Barsness (both of whom not only exhibit with the gallery, but also teach at UGA), Radcliffe Bailey, Carmon Colangelo and Joseph Norman.

The exhibition, which is accompanied by a 24-page catalogue reproducing 10 of the works in the series, will travel to the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina (June - August) and the Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia (September - November).

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