James Drake: Red Drawings and White Cut-Outs

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James Drake’s career has spanned more than thirty years and includes work in many different media including drawings, sculpture, video, and installation. However, he is best known for his draftsmanship, and his drawings have been consistently admired and sought after by collectors and museums.

The predominately white cut-out drawings are ephemeral studies in composition and subtraction. Made by literally cutting the paper with an X-Acto blade, the elegant works belie their extremely complicated fabrication and technical bravado—visible as much by the shadows they cast as by the drawn line. The Red Drawings began in direct response to the White Cut-outs. The intensity and saturation of the red chalk infuses the drawings with a different life and character. 

This oversize book includes all of the pieces made from both series and is accompanied by an essay by Carter Foster, drawing curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

James Drake’s career has spanned more than thirty years and includes work in many different media including drawings, sculpture, video, and installation. However, he is best known for his draftsmanship, and his drawings have been consistently admired and sought after by collectors and museums.

The predominately white cut-out drawings are ephemeral studies in composition and subtraction. Made by literally cutting the paper with an X-Acto blade, the elegant works belie their extremely complicated fabrication and technical bravado—visible as much by the shadows they cast as by the drawn line. The Red Drawings began in direct response to the White Cut-outs. The intensity and saturation of the red chalk infuses the drawings with a different life and character. 

This oversize book includes all of the pieces made from both series and is accompanied by an essay by Carter Foster, drawing curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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  • Drawings by James Drake
    Text by Carter Foster

    Hardbound
    12 × 15 inches
    144 pages / 50 color illustrations
    Trade ISBN: 9781934435403
    Signed copies no longer available.

  • James Drake (b. Lubbock, Texas, 1946) currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California. Drake is the recipient of numerous awards, which include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, and a Nancy Graves Award for Visual Arts. In 2007, his work was featured at the 52nd International Venice Biennale, and in 2000, his work was featured in the Whitney Biennial. Drake’s work can be seen in many permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Blanton Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; San Antonio Museum of Art; Art Museum of South Texas, El Paso Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; New Mexico Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Three monographs have been published on James Drake: James Drake (University of Texas Press, 2008); James Drake: Red Drawings & White Cut-Outs (Radius Books, 2011); and James Drake: 1242 (Radius Books / Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2014).