DRAWING WATER

Patrick Mahon

Central Gallery
October 19, 2008 to January 4, 2009

Patrick Mahon's new series of drawings and sculptures, entitledA Book of the River, displays networks of lines and arabesques that describe the movement of water and invoke conditions of environmental and psychological turbulence and unrest. The artist has adapted his work from a series of engravings by J.M.W. Turner, originally compiled in the book Rivers of France(1837). Mahon generates elaborate “nets” of printed lines that propose a poetic and “structural” order to the life-sustaining presence of rivers.