Ann Diener
Exclusionary #2
2019
graphite, colored pencil, gouache, ink and cut paper on paper
60 x 40 inches
My drawings are based on the layered history of place and the built environment. Through drawing and following extensive research, I trace geographical patterns of movement and the ways that spaces are re-invented over time. Our geographies, like our histories, take on a physical form as social relations become spatial as represented by images, ideas and imaginings. Using varied scale, obsessive layering and cutting away of images along with complicated perspective, I weave images and intricate linear patterns to depict man’s relationship with the land, the physical, practical and social architecture of space. The drawings are visual stories, dialogues among many sources, told through the build up of objects, architecture, natural and art history.