Black and white formats, whether represented in photography, print mediums, painting or drawing, have long captivated artists. Where color choices are objectively stripped away, form, contour, and content take precedence. William Christenberry’s Untitled drawing is created with a bundle of tightly held pencils, skipping across the page to take the shape of a jittery tree form; Amy Schissel's cartographic paintings on paper create an imagined celestial or terrestrial space, independent of time. Tim Doud's explosive, splatter works on paper and Mark Kelner's conceptual barcode paintings engage a long-standing tradition of representational vs. abstract making, while Anne Rowlands’s assemblage of satellite views subvert the principle of the traditional landscape photograph.
