Dmitri Obergfell, Artist

Chameleon automotive paint on wood panel
2.75" x 70" x 46"

Artist's website. Link here.

Carline Slotte, Artist

Artist's website here.

Asmat Bisj Poles

The Asmats are found in New Guinea and they carve these Bisj Poles as memorials of deceased men of their tribe. The culture used to participate in headhunting and cannibalistic rituals in which the Bisj Poles played a more important role. Carved from the nutmeg tree, these poles would help to satisfy the spirits of men who had been headhunted in their tribe, giving them peace to proceed on into the afterlife. Sometimes carved as tall as 25 feet, the bisj poles depict men incorporated with phallic symbols or prows of the canoe. The phallic symbols were to represent the virility and continuation of the tribe and the canoe, a vehicle to the afterlife. Many times, at the base of these poles, they would place the heads of enemies they successfully hunted, to please those who had gone before them. The rituals and carving surrounding this tradition were always an exclusively male affair. While the rituals and thirst for revenge that usually prompted their creation are no longer acted on today, the poles are still used for ritual within the tribe today.

Image and text found on Art and Culture: 104 blog.  Link here. 

Common Objects That Demonstrate Drawing

Image source link is Mythology of Blue.  Link here.

Isabelle Cornaro, Artist

Paper, hair, pencil

Cardboard

Jewels on plywood

Image source The Drawing Center, Viewing Program.  Link here. 

Ursula von Rydingsvard, Artist

Ursula von Rydingsvard
b. 1942, Germany, Working in New York
Website link here. 

Annie Bissett, Artist

"Sometimes it's hard for me to loosen up my drawing hand, so I decided to force myself into looseness by using a power drill to draw on my wood block. Not sure how this will look once it's printed, but I'm hoping it will look like falling stars."

Image and text from artist's blog, Woodblock Dreams.  Link here. 

Ella Robinson, Artist

Website link here. 

Whitfield Lovell, Artist

Whitfield Lovell. American, born 1959.Temptation,  2000. Charcoal on wood, found objects (chair, frames, metal implement). 101 x 69 3/4 x 36 inches. Purchased with the Hillyer-Mather-Tryon Fund. 

Whitfield Lovell is known for his sculptural tableaux of meticulously-drawn portraits of anonymous African-Americans from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. 

Source is Smith College Museum of Art.  Link here.