The Nude in the 21st Century

Lisa Ackerman



Agata Augustine



Rita Bard



David Beale



Grace Benedict



Grace Benedict



Joseph Besch



Jeff Black



Janet Bland



Jamina Bone



Louise Britton



Loiuse Britton



Liz Bruno



Rebecca Burrow



Stephen Burt



Kathy Carl



Yoonhee Choi



Reed Clarke



Sven Froekjaer-Jensen



Emily Gibbons



Laura Hamje



Andrea Harris



Annie Heisey



Sally Heppner



Keith Howard



Linda Jerome



Mark Kaufman



Anne Kelly



Nicholas Knapton



Lydia Larson



Norah Lee



Jan Madill



Gwen Manfrin



Gwen Manfrin



Susannah Martin



Joan Masat



Jessica McCoy



Michael McGuinn



Marcus Miers



Thomas Murray



Armin Muhsam



Lisa Qualls



Nick Reszetar



Suzanne Rothlisberger



Robert Schlegel



Charles Schweigert



Gregory Siler



Gregory Siler



Teri Starkweather



Tara Sweeney



David Terry



Noel Thomas



Penelope Treat



Edward Trover



Robert A. Weibel


Kathy Carl
(Forty Bragg, CA)
Artist Website

Looking Out Back, Ink drawing, 17"x14"

"My Life Lines" -- Kathy Carl

I am a member of the Mendocino Figure Drawing Collective, a weekly
drop-in resource headquartered since 1990 at the Mendocino Art Center
in Northern California. The drawing that will be included in the "Au
Naturel" exhibit represents a body of work that has become a unique
statement of my personal, recognizable style. I work towards
capturing a pose in the present and creating an immediate finished
drawing. After short-pose warmups and a process of clearing my mind
of outside distractions, a longer pose allows me to enter an almost
trance-like state of attention. It is in this state, I am able to
take my pen and ink and find the contours, forms and negative spaces
of the model's pose. I cannot erase and adjust, therefore must be
fully connected to the process. I know I have entered this state when
I start to notice flashes of past dreams trying to enter my mind. I
just smile and work on. . .enjoying the world I have entered.
Although my drawings may not be perfectly accurate, I try to reveal
the connection I was able to make as I transcribed my personal
vision. I hope my "life lines" show that I was seeing my subject with
something more than just my eyes and defining it with more than just
my hand.


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