Works by Warren Criswell in the Collection Capital Arts Center, Taipei

DRAWINGS BY WARREN CRISWELL IN THE COLLECTION OF
Capital Art Center
Taipei, Taiwan

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0061-700 Apple Changing, 1986, ballpoint,
spray enamel & white charcoal on tan paper

These drawings were purchased by the Capital Arts Center of Taipei in 1993 and were featured in an exhibition there titled "Ulysses' Men at Circe's: Drawings by Warren Criswell."* They were done in the late 1980s, following my photorealistic watercolor period. I had quit the camera cold turkey and was learning to see the world all over again, carrying a sketch pad with me everywhere. Most of these drawings were started in the dark at the Prime Time Club in Little Rock and finished in my studio, using a variety of media, inluding spray paint, quill pens, ballpoint pens, pastels, white charcoal and God knows what else. I had neither shot slides nor kept records of these sketches before they were sold by Cantrell Gallery. But recently I discovered these images by chance on Capital Art Center's website. Déjà vu all over again.
...........................................Warren Criswell, May 2014

0385-700 Study for "Brandy Doing Glitter"

0850-700 Study for "Watching Sandy"

0795-700

1019-700

1067-700 Connie

1096-700 Study of whirling dancers

1163-700 Kelly Dancing

*For those who have forgotten The Odyssey, Circe is the goddess who turned men into pigs. Here is a copy of a fax I sent to Julia Wo, then manager of Capital Art Center in Novemver, 1993, in response to her request for information about my drawings:
FAX TO CHINA

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