OHT Gallery Boston

Previous Exhibits

New Works on Paper

Katherine Jackson, Pamela Harris, Eva Lee, William Weiss

January 12 - February 18, 2006
Reception: Friday, February 3, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

O·H+T gallery is pleased to reopen it's newly renovated space with a group show of works on paper by Katherine Jackson, whose work will be featured in the Project Room, Pamela Harris, Eva Lee and William Weiss.

Katherine Jackson's drawings derive from her experience as a poet and scholar. Her new work moves away from the more linear orientation of earlier drawings and prints, as she allows marks and letters to swarm in dense, textural clouds, then dissolve to leave blank areas of paper or a few scatted words. Once again, Jackson "pushes language to the point of its disappearance" with these obsessively worked gems.

Pamela Harris's pastel and charcoal drawings examine the invisible network of systems and patterns that she sees underlying all things, from how we think and feel, to how physical objects are constructed. Choosing a square format, she begins each drawing with a single, arced mark. By intuitively repeating the same mark, while following basic principles of construction, she builds drawings that, in her words, "attempt to depict an information network devoid of information."

Eva Lee's large white-on-black ink drawings explore the space and complexity of nature's cellular and cosmic systems. While working with scientists at the University of California at Davis, she gained insight into their problem solving methods. Looking at systems developed through scientific inquiry led Lee to her own process of building marks and lines into organic shapes which grow to occupy the dark spaces of her eerie, bioscientific drawings.

Made as studies for his paintings, William Weiss's tiny, cartoonish ink drawings have a power that belies their modest size. The black and white simplicity of these semi-abstract drawings is direct and visually potent. Suggestive of clumps of odd buildings, mechanical structures, and biological parts that have been magnetically drawn to an earth-like core, they have what one critic calls a "ramshackle physicality" that works in tandem with their wit and formal acuity.