BALTIMORE, MD - C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Drawn From the Racks: Works on Paper, a group exhibition featuring drawing, print, collage and sculpture pulled directly from the gallery’s archives. Participating artists represent some of C. Grimaldis Gallery’s earliest, most historic schowcases as well as its most recent exhibitors, highlighting paper works that encompass the full breadth of the gallery’s programming.

Many works in this exhibition are made by artists primarily known for their sculptural practice -- here creating images that study recurring forms and motifs, but in a slightly altered vocabulary that relies on surface, line, texture and technique to explore their ideas. Richard Serra and Annette Sauermann take materials similarly used in their sculptures and apply them to their “drawings”, where geometry and materiality give way to an expanded experience of depth within the surface plane. Mario Merz and Madeleine Dietz create works that also speak to their iconic forms, whether concrete, natural earth, or found object. Their prints and drawings use paper as an environment to explore structure, color, and light in a new vernacular. Meanwhile, Jae Ko transforms paper into a living voice within her wall sculptures. Through binding, gluing, and submerging, Ko imbues her chosen medium with a soft vitality that evokes the forces of nature.

Drawn From the Racks features a variety of collage work, including those from Baltimore artists Grace Hartigan and Keith Martin, both renowned for their abstract paintings and paper works. As an inherently intimate form of art-making, these assemblages provide a unique window into imagination and artistic decision-making. The drawings of Diane Victor, along with Hartigan’s later works, provide figurative anchors amongst the more gestural elements of the show. Bold lines, geometric forms, and nods to architectural structure interplay with notes of vivid color and organic forms, brought forth through and onto paper, in an exhibition that celebrates the full scope of C. Grimaldis Gallery’s 48 years in Baltimore.