Drawing in motion

NARROWSBURG, NY — An exhibition of drawings and video titled “So Much to Say [not enough time]” is on view at the Alliance Gallery of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance through July 4.

“Video has made a new kind of collage available to the artist, one with picture, motion, graphic type and sound,” says Tomlinson, who has been creating drawings for 40 years. During the past several years he has combined his drawings with animation in digital video to create narrative motion drawings with musical compositions.

“Since the late 1990s, I have been extending drawing into digital media because I realized that most of my previous figural images were about movement in space,” says Tomlinson. “Animating my drawings by making numerous motion drawings to create actual movement in the composition, led me to construct narratives, sequences, patterns, and textures in a contemporary time-based medium, digital video.”

Tomlinson has exhibited his drawings and paintings in New York City and throughout the U.S., and has received reviews in several publications, including Arts Magazine and The New York Times. He recently exhibited two portrait works at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont in a show of 80 artists entitled “As Others See Us.”

He has had a long career in art education, as a professor of drawing in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons the New School for Design from 1980 to 2001 and as the director of the New York Studio Program of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design since 1992. More of his drawing, video, and sound works can be seen at www.johnwtomlinson.com.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit ArtsAllianceSite.org or call 845/252-7576.