16 March - 23 April 2022
Goodman Gallery, London
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For this exhibition, the New-York based artist transforms the lower-ground of the gallery with a monumental site-specific installation. This piece, together with other works on view, span recurring motifs in Drew’s oeuvre – an intuitive approach to composition, materiality and the language of abstraction.
Drew is known for creating wall-based abstract sculptural works that play on a tension between order and chaos. The artist typically uses manipulated organic materials to create richly detailed works – seemingly bursting from the walls – which resemble densely populated cities or urban wastelands and evoke the mutability of the natural world. Materials include wood, cardboard, paint, paper, plastic, rope, string and tree trunks. The artist subjects these elements to processes of oxidation, burning and weathering. These labour-intense manipulations mimic natural processes and transform these objects into sculptures that address formal and social concerns as well as the cyclical nature of existence. Drew’s long-standing interest in lifecycles and how human labour leaves traces of life behind is an important aspect of the materiality of the work.