The Drawing Center reopens tomorrow in the building it has called home since 1986, completely renovated during the past year and expanded to nearly double its exhibition space. Founded in 1977, it is the only not-for-profit fine arts institution in the country to focus solely on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.

The Drawing Center takes a uniquely interdisciplinary approach, having presented intriguing exhibitions over the years that connect drawing to science (Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature), architecture (Constant, Inigo Jones, Louis Kahn, Yona Freidman, Frederick Kiesler), literature (Victor Hugo, Henri Michaux, Unica Zürn), political movements (Rikrit Tiravanija), theater (Picasso's Parade, Theater on Paper), film (Sergei Eisenstein, Drawing on Film, Sun Xun), music (Iannis Xenakis, Musical Manuscripts), choreography (Trisha Brown), and technology (FAX).

In conjunction with its re-opening, the Drawing Center has announced the start of a long-term initiative to exhibit Latin American drawing. Currently on view is a solo exhibition of works by the Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. His semiabstract paintings, often based on maps and architectural blueprints including theater interiors and domestic spaces, were most recently seen at Sperone Westwater in 2010.

The 17 pieces installed in the main gallery, from the series Diarios, were created from paintings the artist had abandoned, then later repurposed by stretching them on a circular table and amalgamating new layers of visual information into the surface. Working on each one over a period of months, they came to represent the daily thoughts and activities resulting from time spent in the studio in the form of doodles, scribbled phone numbers and addresses. A visual record of his daily existence, these are among the 40 or so he has made over the past 15 years.

The classical limestone and cast iron facade of The Drawing Center, photo from TDC's Facebook page.

A concurrent show of recent art by the Colombian artist José António Suárez Londoño is also part of the initiative. Mr. Suárez Londoño, who resides in Medellin, is a well-known figure in his home country, and known here primarily as a printmaker. The Drawing Center is presenting work from his ongoing time-baed project, “The Yearbooks.” For several years he has been systematically producing a drawing a day based on books he is reading, most of them diaries (Franz Kafka, Paul Klee), fiction (W. G. Sebald, Ovid) and poetry (Blaise Cendrars, Patti Smith). He has so far completed some 5,000 drawings, contained in 65 pocket-size notebooks, a selection of which are installed in The Drawing Room.

The reopening reception for The Drawing Center is tonight, from 6-9 pm. At 6:30 pm, In conjunction with the exhibition, José Antonio Suárez Londoño The Yearbooks, renowned authors Deborah Eisenberg, Jacki Lyden, and Peter Carey will read passages from select literary texts and memoirs that inspired the notebook drawings on view.

The Drawing Center reopens on Thursday with three exhibitions: Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios, José António Suárez Londoño: The Yearbooks, and In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, continuing through Dec. 9. 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY.

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