"True Defenders of the Craft"

I couldn't be more happy than to share this with readers of TAA. Tomorrow night (Friday) Warren Craghead opens a solo show at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. The show is called "True Defenders of the Craft" and will feature tons of drawing, collage and paper sculpture. Having followed Warren's work for well over a year now, I can't tell you how anxious I am to see the show. Given that, I'll be taking off work early and driving down to Charlottesville for the opening tomorrow night. On Saturday I plan on seeing what else the town has to offer. If you're in the area, I recommend you see the show.

Warren has been publishing show updates on his own blog for the past two months or so. Check it out here to get a sense of what is in store.

True Defenders of the Craft: Drawings by Warren Craghead
November 4 - 26, 2005
Local Artist fills Dové Gallery with Introspective Works on Paper
For its November Dové Gallery exhibition, Second Street Gallery features new drawings and collages by Charlottesville artist Warren Craghead.

On view November 4 - 26, 2005, the exhibition presents dozens of introspective works on paper veiled in subtle beauty and intrigue, including the largest drawing of his career.

True Defenders of the Craft: Drawings by Warren Craghead is on view at Second Street Gallery, 115 Second Street SE, November 4 - 26, 2005. There will be an opening reception for First Fridays, November 4, 6:00-8:00 pm, with an artist talk at 6:30 pm. The exhibition is sponsored in part by Linda & Terry Way.

For Warren Craghead, the ordinary world is his palette. An unmade bed, Suburban roof line or streetlight unravel from a thin pencil line like poetry of the overlooked. “Each drawing,” explains the artist, “is a kind of story, one that tells itself as I draw. It’s about creating mystery and confusion and bafflement, like the real world does.” And yet even the more complex collages, formed from notebook paper, cardboard, Post-Its and apparent castoffs, possess a deliberate grace, narrative puzzles that are part underground comic, part architectural, and very much about charting the quiet moments of life that hold profound meaning. Based in Charlottesville, Craghead has exhibited across the country, including New York and Texas. He received his MFA in 1996 from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1993. True Defenders is his first solo show in Virginia.

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[wwc]

Thanks for the promo J.T.