On the Town: An exhibition of drawings by five artists at the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin, entitled Plan D, was described as "playful, colourful and delicate" by one visitor.
David Fitzgerald, from the nearby Kerlin Gallery, said he especially liked the drawings of New York-based artist Diana Cooper. One drawing "is almost like an urban grid", he said, pointing to a Cooper drawing called Local Centres. "You can almost sense the idea of the grid of cities in the way she uses relief. It's almost three-dimensional. It's really, really good." The exhibition was "playful, colourful and delicate", he added.
"Drawing is very fashionable now," said the curator of the show, artist Sherman Sam. "There are some people who draw where it's a study or a sketch, to prepare them for the art work, whereas for us it's something we do for the art in and of itself."
According to Sam, his own work in the show "started out as pencil on paper and I cut out the bits to fit the shapes of the drawing. Then it took on a life of its own".
Art critic and academic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith said he liked the fact that the curator "has not been content just to deal with artists of his own generation", pointing to the work of Thomas Nozkowski, an artist who has been working since the 1970s. There's "a sort of delicacy and a quietude even to something that is quite busy, but the tone and atmosphere is reflective", he said of one untitled drawing.
Another artist whose work is on view in the show, London-based Andrew Bick, was also at the opening. His work, he said, is "completely abstract". The fifth and final artist represented in the show is the Bilbao-based Patrick M Fitzgerald.
Plan D runs at the Rubicon Gallery, 10 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, until Sat, Apr 23