Opening Reception: 50 Years Later, Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition

Join us for the opening reception of 50 Years Later: Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition, celebrates the legacy of the Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition—an event that between 1972-1976 brought some of the most compelling contemporary works on paper to Davidson College. While the original exhibition was a true juried exhibition, for the new iteration, the Galleries opened up a call for artists pushing the boundaries of traditional print and drawing practices with the goal of selected a small number of artists to exhibit a few works each. Nationally recognized curators Caitlin Haskell, Gary C. and Frances Comer Senior Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art and Director of Ray Johnson Collections and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Maria Elena Ortiz, Curator, The Modern, Fort Worth, TX; and TK Smith, Curator, Writer, Cultural Historian, Atlanta, GA reviewed hundreds of entries and selected nine artists for exhibition. These artists then worked with Lia Rose Newman, gallery director/curator, to finalize works for the exhibition. Exhibiting Artists: Paul Stephen Benjamin – Yoonhee Choi – Jillian Conrad – Maja Godlewska – Maria Korol – Ambrin Ling – Jenene Nagy – Adrian Rhodes – Sergio Suarez