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Sentence Drawing Sentence with George Pfau and Alexandra Pratt

WHERE: mg gallery
WHEN: October 11, 4-10pm

Sentence Drawing Sentence, at Oakland’s mg gallery, is part of a series of art events happening internationally, collectively titled “Independent Drawing Gig No. 4.” The medium of drawing will be reflected in shows happening in New York, Istanbul, The Hague, Maastricht, Vilnius, and Seoul. These happenings will all be documented and posted on www.indiedrawingsgig.com.
Sentence Drawing Sentence is a modification of Exquisite Corpse, practiced and popularized by the Surrealist art movement in the 1920’s. The game Pictionary also incorporates similar practices. Perhaps SDS has the most similarities with the game Telephone (aka Operator) where a message is passed around a circular group of people, being whispered from person to person. The popularly known Cartoon Caption Contest at the end of each issue of the New Yorker Magazine is essentially one step in a SDS sequence.
This exercise explores the immediate and instinctual transfer of ideas back and forth from pictographic to typographic language. While seeming to be “just a game,” this unique process a displays the most subtle aspects of how individuals interpret and translate visual icons and written language.

More information: www.sentencedrawingsentence.com