Untitled 2018

This drawing by Alevtyna Kakhidze is made with direct, economical marks, red and green on a white ground, but it holds a multitude. I feel like I’m looking into someone’s notebook or mind. It’s full of association. I wonder what it was like to make. Perhaps she was thinking about artmaking itself and the relationship between drawing and language. See how the flower in the pot shares the space with what appears to be a series of landscapes, or political commentary, maybe? Kakhidze is in conversation with other artists, like Philip Guston, who combined drawing with personal narrative and raw emotion. But what’s interesting here is the tension between representation and abstraction. The drawing invites us to consider how artists are constantly borrowing, revising, and responding to each other’s work, creating a rich tapestry of visual and conceptual exchange that expands over time. It is open-ended, resisting any single interpretation, and that's the joy of it.