Collaboration with Lee Tuyet Le. Partner Drawing, or Tandem Drawing, made not with our conscious minds, but with other brain areas: the motor cortex, the basal ganglia. Drawings enabled by our mammalian brain.
Between 8 March & 20 June 2008 Lee Tuyet Le and I created a folio of 13 Automatic Drawings. At the time we thought we had invented Automatic Drawing. In later research we learned that people have been making automatic drawings for centuries.
In some ways automatic drawing may be more like dance than drawing. It is such a powerful and rhythmic, pre-conscious interaction with a partner. I’ve written more extensively about the work and its context here:
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Saturday 8 March 2008
Automatic Drawing #1, 8 March 2008, graphite on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn Zucman
Sunday 16 March 2008
Automatic Drawing #2, 16 March 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #3, 16 March 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #4, 16 March 2008, graphite on paper, 30×22″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #5, 16 March 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn Zucman
Monday 24 March 2008
Automatic Drawing #6, 24 March 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn Zucman
Saturday 5 April 2008
Automatic Drawing #7, 5 April 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #8, 5 April 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #9, 5 April 2008, conte crayon on paper, 30×22″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn Zucman
Friday 20 June 2008
Automatic Drawing #10, 20 June 2008, graphite on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #11, 20 June 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #12, 20 June 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn ZucmanAutomatic Drawing #13, 20 June 2008, conte crayon on paper, 22×30″, Lee Tuyet Le & Glenn Zucman
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Glenn Zucman
I’m interested in the ways we explore and express our multiple identities. I’m an Artist & Arts Educator here in Los Angeles.
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