Selections Spring 2010: Sea Marks March 4, 2010

The exhibition will be comprised of works by Agnes Barley, Jerome Marshak, and Peter Matthews, three artists selected from the Viewing Program who notate, describe, and interpret aspects of the sea. Responding to the exhibition 'Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary,' which will be on view simultaneously in The Drawing Center's Main Gallery, 'Sea Marks' takes a personal facet of Xenakis's life as its starting point. Beginning in the early 1950s, Xenakis and his family vacationed on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, where they camped and kayaked. His daughter Makhi draws a connection between what she calls "the violence and the special force" of her father's music and his intense contact with the Mediterranean. 'Selections Spring 2010: Sea Marks' examines the capacity of drawing to represent something as dynamic, volatile, and vast as the sea