March 08 – April 19, 2008

Opening reception: March 22, 6–8 pm

Artist Talk: 6:30 pm

Lora Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition by British artist, Ewan Gibbs, entitled Pictures of Pitchers. The exhibition will include eight new graphite drawings, the subject of each is a baseball pitcher captured at the moment just after the release of the ball.

"The images I choose depict the pitchers follow-through at its most extreme. My interest is not in the specific individuals depicted or in their celebrity status but in their contorted forms that can only be captured and arrested by the camera. Once chosen, I then spend days, weeks and months translating and celebrating each of these split seconds of extreme athleticism and endeavour." 
– Ewan Gibbs

Ewan Gibbs’ drawings are made through the building of thousands of individual hash marks that coalesce to create a drawing that is at once infinitely detailed and resonates as a whole. The drawings in this show are sourced from photographs, chosen because they engage many of the specific qualities of photography that interest Gibbs, including how it captures a moment our eyes are unable to register and in doing so emphasizes the single instant as well as the subjectivity of vision. Gibbs’ work has been paired with that of Vija Celmins and Agnes Martin because of their shared sensitivity of approach and absorption in process and mark making.

Ewan Gibbs was born in 1973 and lives and works in London where he attended the prestigious Goldsmiths College. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe and has been acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, London, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin.