Drawings, an exhibition of 100 works on paper by Corey Presha continues his use of found ephemera of 20th century Americana. Using a Dada influenced “cut-up technique” to create both personal and fantastical narratives, he completely shifts the meaning of the banal postcard artwork and phrases. He describes the process of making these drawings as “more subtraction than addition”, taking what he needs and leaving out the rest. The details he chooses to focus on create a world filled with both humor and existential dread. Although certain sequences are planned, containing as few as two works or as many as ten, the uniformity of the presentation allows the work to be mixed and matched by curator or collector to continue the conversation beyond Presha’s original vision.

DRAWINGS