Books

Kathleen Henderson: Out-takes [Pinspot #22]

Kathleen Henderson’s artist book of "outtakes” are a selection of 8x10 inch pieces literally cut out of larger works. Henderson takes on what may be the biggest issue of our crisis-laden times; human folly in the face of extinction. Henderson’s emotive drawings show man bumbling through the world, tripping and fumbling, as the litany of crises mount. Some are trapped, as Narcissus was, stupidly gazing at their own reflections. Others are more literally blinded by the bags they wear over their heads. They stand no chance of even knowing what telltale signs of doom they are missing; sitting ducks. Artemis of Ephesus, a mother goddess and protector of pregnant women, makes an appearance in two drawings. Henderson never really points the finger in her work. Instead her drawings make us all complicit in the fate that awaits us. Our human folly so evident. Our stupidity laid bare.

36 pages.
9 x 6 inches
Staplebound.
2019
Pinspot #22

Kathleen Henderson: What If I Could Draw a Bird That Could Change the World?

Selections Fall 2008 is an exhibition of Viewing Program artist Kathleen Henderson’s oil stick drawings. Using a sparse, tense, and energetic line, Henderson makes drawings that are at turns comic, perverse, poignant, and brutal.

Drawing Papers 80 features works from the exhibition as well as a conversation between the artist and curator on representations of human behavioral patterns in Henderson’s drawings.

Year: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 62