Carmel Buckley

“Carmel Buckley • Ron Johnson • Jeffrey Cortland Jones,” Gallery V, Columbus, OH, 2003

Three-person show

In this exhibition I showed a series of older prints that used inked-up found materials and chine collé. I also exhibited a new series of drawings which were made with my child’s art supplies. I used what were called “spider pens,” which left a sticky trail of ink. By drawing with a series of points on the paper I was left with a thin line of ink between the marks I made. This group of works was similar to my earlier orange ink correction drawings in the use of repetition and accidental mark making. The system that is set up—and the mark that is made—becomes the framework within which the drawing develops. The variation in line is created by the ability of the drawing tool to divest itself of ink, the starts and stops while making the piece, and the direction of the line. The time expended gives the work its scale. These works have been made in sets of three: the minimal amount of drawing to hold the page, an intermediate drawing, and a third that fills the page to a least two of its edges.