Elise Engler: A Year On Broadway at ROBERT HENRY CONTEMPORARY

Veröffentlicht am 21.12.2015

James Kalm spends a lot of time on the mean streets of New York City. So, when he visited this exhibition of street drawings by Elise Engler, he felt a sympathetic pang. Engler spent most of a year traveling up and down the legendary backbone thoroughfare of Manhattan, Broadway, making documentary drawings of almost every block. Using watercolor and gouache, on site, she then returns to the studio and sharpens up her compositions with color pencils. This street-strip drawing contains 252 individual sheets, and shows, like a time laps film, the changing seasons, time of day, and even patterns of construction and development. A musical introduction is provided by the L Train Band http://www.ltrainband.com/ .
This program was recorded on December 13, 2015 in Bushwick.