File:Drew Shiflett Untitled53 2008.jpg

Constructed drawing by Drew Shiflett, Untitled #53 (graphite, ink, watercolor, Conté crayon, and handmade paper, 25.5" x 47.5" x 0.5", 2008). The image illustrates a key body of work by Drew Shiflett dating back to the early 2000s, when she began producing her "constructed drawings," which marry relief, collage and drawing. They feature a complex interplay between inner structure and tactile surface (image), with obsessively sprawling demarcations loosely sectioned by underlying geometric shapes. While abstract, as in this work, they vary widely in their allusions to, among other things, architectural tableaux, landscapes, woven materials (e.g., to tattersall plaids or seersucker fabric) and layered strata of geological time. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Drew Shiflett. Copyright held by the artist.

Drew Shiflett

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key and distinctive body of work in Drew Shiflett's career initiated in the 2000s: her "constructed drawings," which synthesize elements of relief, collage and drawing. She assembled these works through a work-intensive approach employing intuition, improvisation and deliberation, in variegated, layered grids of handmade paper and cheesecloth interwoven and joined with glue and paper pulp, onto which she drew delicate grids of tremulous, repeated marks with graphite, ink, Conté crayon or watercolor. They were characterized by their muted chromatic and tonal range, lively, puckered surfaces, and varied patterning, which shifted between all-over effects, dense and diffuse passages, or sections pieced together patchwork-style. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key foundational body of work, which brought Shiflett initial recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Shiflett's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Drew Shiflett, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.