Françoise Sullivan & Iain Baxter On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (Through February 7) December 2, 2010

The work of Canadian artists Françoise Sullivan (pictured) and Iain Baxter& (the ampersand is part of his surname), both on the roster of Toronto’s Corkin Gallery, is being exhibited as part of the recently opened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) show, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. The exhibition explores the radical transformation of the medium of drawing throughout the 20th century, a period when numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of drawing to a critical examination and expanded the medium’s definition in relation to gesture and form. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from the reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed line across the plane into real space, thus questioning the relation between the object of art and the world.