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CHRISTINE TAYLOR PATTEN
DRAWING TIME: THE TIME OF DRAWING
micro/macro 251

UNTIL 28 MARCH 2015


A work that resonates with contemporary physics and music

Christine Taylor Patten, micro/macro drawings


A project consisting of 2001 works

Prior to their appearance at the 14th Istanbul Biennial in September 2015, a series of drawings by Christine Taylor Patten called micro/macro are exhibited at Leyden Gallery, London. Christine Taylor Patten began her monumental micro/macro series of drawings on New Year's Eve 1997. The project consists of 2001 works: 2000 one-by-one-inch (2.5cm) drawings and one seven by-twenty-four-feet drawings (7.3 x 2.1 metres). Each one of the micro drawings is sequentially titled from 1 AD to 2000 AD and beyond. Drawn in crow quill and black ink, the abstract drawings in this long-term series are a mirror and expansion of the investigations into wave motion and relationship that Patten has engaged with in her drawings over two decades and in ten series.


From a single dot in space

This exhibition consists of up to 250 of the intricately wrought, crow quill and ink micros as well as a single large-scale study for the macro, entitled Imagine©ø. It is also an opportunity to see a number of 'tangent' drawings developed from one drawing within the series, indicating ever more possibilities held within each drawing. The micro/macro drawings on display progress from a single dot in space that breaks apart and then evolves into myriad movements, each one referencing the previous drawing and promising new possibilities for another, encompassing the range of abstract possibilities from the organic to the geometric. They emerge as an aesthetic evolution from within each drawing, each appearing as an repetition with difference of the preceding one that takes the drawing process into transformations dictated by the infinite possibilities held within each and within drawing itself. Taylor Patten says that she is 'fascinated by the interconnections that happened as the series progresses, exposing familiar form caused by what has come before. The images reiterate each other yet they are changing from one movement to another, ad infinitum, with each pen stroke responding to what has already happened in the drawing. At each point of convergence the direction of the image is arbitrary, unplanned, evolving amongst the infinite possibilities generated by the process.'

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CURATORS Griselda Pollock and Adriana Cerne
OPENING TIMES Tuesday to Saturday 11am - 7pm
ADMISSION PRICE Free admission