Of Mythic Worlds, Drawing Center review — shapes in search of the eternal
Ariella Budick, Financial Times
March 2023
‘Artists are never on thinner ice or more sublimely sure of their footing than when they’re hunting for a view of the infinite. The Drawing Center’s expansive show Of Mythic Worlds in Manhattan takes as its topic what its curator Olivia Shao calls the “universal pursuit to understand that which is outside of our objective, worldly experience”. In other words, it’s about everything. Material objects — sheets of paper — strive to reveal the insubstantial. Marks made in charcoal and ink point to the inchoate and represent the unrepresentable.’ […]