Tickets
General Ticket: $10
Members: $5
Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris invite you to a drawing salon in the style of Sam Messer’s “drawing happenings.” Having met during their time as Sam’s students in the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art program, Messer has passed his torch to the couple in the spirit of community. Bring a sketchbook, graphite or colored pencils, and/or pens (please no paints, charcoal, or pastels), and have a seat in the main gallery space to draw the people around you, the space, or something that catches your eye in this meditative experience of observing.
In the style of Sam Messer’s famous drawing happenings, the event is a laid-back environment where the most difficult task is losing yourself to the act of drawing and remaining present. Both Jackie and Norm honor the legacy of Sam’s happenings and his belief in community, bringing people together through drawing. “We are together and alone at the same time,” says Norm.
Please note that this is a casual drawing session and not a class.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
JACKIE HOVING
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The work of this New York–based artist is engaged in concealing and revealing through patterns and layers, weaving together images to create a camouflaged, nonlinear narrative. Hoving has attended Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, Vermont Studio Center, and Oxbow Artist Residency. As a founding member of the artist-run space Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Brooklyn she has had the opportunity to curate several shows including Magic Shell and Night Flight. Hoving is an accomplished educator who has taught for many years at Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design.
NORM PARIS
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A painter and a printmaker, Paris grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a city with an industrial and civic history that has profoundly influenced the way he thinks about space. He is interested in over-built structures, struggling icons, and failed reenactments of old myths. Paris earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. He has lectured at Yale, Arcadia University, Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Tyler School of Art and has been teaching drawing at RISD since 2008. Paris was a Pew Fellowship finalist in 2005 and won the Ralph Mayer Prize for excellence in methods and materials at Yale in 2002. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Jewish Museum in New York, among other noted collections, and was recently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Samson Projects in Boston, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Proposition in New York City.