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Ingrid Calame, Nathan Carter, Tiffany Chung, Joyce Kozloff, Lordy Rodriguez, Robert Walden and Heidi Whitman
September 14, 2012 - January 13, 2013
Co-curated by Katherine Harmon and Barbara O'Brien
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64111
My work can be see at these venues:
Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn
TAG Fine Arts, London
Whitespace, Atlanta
Calm Chaos And Paper Beauty:
Robert Walden in conversation with Lara Kristin Lentini
Art Papers, Spring 2008
For just over ten years, Robert Walden has been creating intricate, detailed line drawings, eerily reminiscent of the topography of the world's great, familiar cities. Graceful, spacious, elegant, the drawings capture the eye as maps, but when the viewer draws closer—thinking, perhaps, that this is Amsterdam, Paris, or London—she finds not a legible map, but a sort of ghostly vapor trail—an afterimage, mysteriously stripped of all identifying features.
Walden himself is like his drawings—quiet, but with a presence that manages to be both understated and powerful. On a recent cold day in Queens, where he has his studio, I spoke with the artist about his inspirations and sources, the advantages of abstraction, and how to draw calm out of chaos.
