DRAWn
TO THE MOMENT
A group exhibition
& DRAWING EVENT
Opening SATURDAY
SEPTember 20th, 5-8 pm
257 Varet Street, Unit 305 , Brooklyn
Curated by Pilar Lagos & Tracie Lee
Signal 14, Alex Wolkowicz, 11x14 inches, 2025.
Drawing is the act of stopping time while capturing it.
"Drawn to the Moment" explores this paradox through the work of eleven contemporary artists who use drawing as sustained attention—a way of slowing down to discover what emerges when we truly look.
Organized by Immaterial Projects, this exhibition embodies our collective's commitment to slower creative development and community building through shared exploration. Rather than rushing toward quick outcomes, we believe in the kind of sustained looking that drawing demands—the patient attention that reveals what hurried glances miss.
Inspired by John Berger's essay about drawing his father's death mask, the exhibition celebrates drawing's unique power to capture what he called "the simultaneity of a multitude of moments." Berger understood that drawings don't just record what was seen—they create spaces where memory can return and inhabit the marks on paper, transforming what begins as "a site of departure" into "a site of arrival."
Co-curators Pilar Lagos and Tracie Lee, both collective members with deep investments in drawing practice, brought personal understanding to the selection process. Through dialogue with each other, the broader Immaterial Projects community, and the participating artists, we found ourselves consistently drawn to work that showed very human traces: mistakes, erasures, repetitions. Thinking made visible. It wasn't about perfection or photographic accuracy, but about what we came to understand as the accuracy of feeling—a connection to something both immediate and enduring
The Artists
Catherine Chen, Joshua Drayzen, and Michael Miller employ multiples and repetition as forms of investigation. Each iteration deepens the inquiry rather than simply reproducing an image.
Polly Fossey and January Shi transform everyday subjects into moments worthy of extended contemplation, revealing the extraordinary patience required to truly see the ordinary.
Alex Wolkowicz and Gabriel Slavitt create works where bold, confident strokes barely contain themselves within the paper's edges, as if the urgency of their looking threatens to burst beyond any boundary.
Isa Dorvillier and Himeka Murai work with non-traditional surfaces and materials that invite quiet observation, yet contain an underlying intensity that emerges through sustained viewing.
Srishti Dass engages in labor-intensive practices that accumulate time itself. Each mark adds to a dense record of attention paid to forces both human and beyond human scale.
EXHIBITION DEtAILS
Sidetime Studio/SRM Editions is graciously hosting the exhibition in Bushwick.
Opening
Saturday Sept 20th 5-8 pm
Exhibition days and hours
Saturday Sept 20th, 3-5 pm
Sunday Sept 21st, 12-5 pm
Saturday Sept 27th
Sunday Sept 28th, 12-5 pm
For additional viewing slots please reach out.
Draw the Now:
A Participatory Drawing Event
Wednesday, September 24, 5:30–7 PM
Maria Hernandez Park, Bushwick
What if drawing could slow down time? What if paying attention to this exact moment could become a radical act?
Join us for an evening of collective mark-making that celebrates the fleeting and the eternal. Members of Immaterial Projects will facilitate the session, creating a supportive space for experimentation and discovery. We'll gather in the park with simple materials and unexpected prompts that push us beyond our usual ways of seeing.
This isn't about making perfect pictures. It's about the accuracy of feeling, the human traces that reveal thinking in action—the hesitations, corrections, and discoveries that happen when we truly look.
Bring your own drawing materials and an openness to surprise. No experience necessary. All ways of mark-making welcome.
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