The octogenerian artist, who also designed the gallery's bright yellow facade, claims to have put drawing on the back burner in the nineteen-sixties to focus on sculpture. Bus, as the works on paper here prove, he never lost his passion for working in two dimensions. Some of the drawings use charcoal and pencil to solve sculptural problems of space, form, and light; others experiment with techniques of rubbing and cutting. Even the objects in the show--including an exclamation point made of rubberized horsehair and a black enamel-on-wood dot, a period, installed high on a wall--suggest drawings in space. Through Dec. 6. (Nolan, 527 W 29th St. 212-925-6190)
November 3, 2008
