Robin Hill: Drawing the Line

May 1 - June 16, 2007
Don Soker Contemporary Art
49 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA

Don Soker is pleased to announce Drawing the Line, a solo exhibition by Robin Hill, consisting of new large-scale wax drawings which explore the diagrammatic, navigational, transcendental, and hypnotic potential of singular line formations, derived from chance operations and subjected to inversion, enlargement, reduction, repetition, and rotation. Drawn with hot tools and filled with pigment, the lines in her drawings conjure the lexicons of branding, tattooing, carving, engraving, and tracks.

In this new body of work, Hill continues to examine the potential of wayward materials, in this case red thread dropped onto pieces of paper which serve as an index for the variations revealed in these drawings. Her drawing, sculpture, and photography share the qualities and questions that have been the subject of her work for years, whereby a seemingly arbitrary process of image-making leads to meaning through repetition and organization, and whereby images and forms acquire a sense of purpose, not in their singularity, but in their relationship to the whole, whether that whole is a space or a collection of works in a space.