Recent drawings by Drew Englander

I bought two drawings by Drew Englander last Friday, they are from the exhibition "Drawrings 2" at my favorite hipster gallery Rhinoceropolis. Englander is a student at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, one of the best institutions in the region for finding decent new artists (a place that will likely crop up in this blog many times). I like Drew's surreal style and loose approach, as well as the bursts of color on otherwise traditional line drawings. The works are intended to be tacked to the wall with the remaining image drawn straight onto the wall by the artist at certain points along the border. I decided to purchase two of the works from this show, from a group of maybe 10 or so. These are a small scale, right around letter-page paper size though some were larger and some were smaller and a couple were on a blue-ish toned paper. I am always amazed that more works like this (at exhibitions like those at Rhinoceropolis) are not more widely purchased though the venue doesn't always help when it comes to sales. There does seem to be a disconnect in Denver, however, with where people might purchase some of the younger, edgier talent, if they are buying it at all. My preference is to support the truly budding talent at this level, I feel it really makes a difference to the artists at this point in their careers, not to mention that the work is great (there were many other worthwhile pieces from the same show).