Opening reception: January 14, 6-8pm

Beginning on January 8th, the GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY will present “Different Strokes,” an exhibition of 20TH Century drawings. The exhibition, which makes no pretense of being either encyclopedic or scholarly, includes 40 works by 33 artists. A broad range of styles are represented, including realism, surrealism and abstraction in a variety of media including pencil, ink, watercolor, collage and acrylic spray paint.

The earliest work in the exhibition is “Study for ‘The Hare’,” 1923 by Lovis Corinth, while one of the most recent is “Samurai No.9,” 1987, a large, gestural abstraction in black and white tempera by Jay DeFeo. In between are such works as George Grosz’s pen and ink “Dr. Sand’s End,” 1924-25, Pavel Tchelitchew’s haunting “Interior Landscape,” c.1940, Theodore Roszack’s dynamic ink wash “The Furies of Folly Cove,” c.1950, Morris Graves’ “Ant War,” part of an unusual series from 1958, and Jacob Lawrence’s Picasso-esque “Carnival,” 1967.

The exhibition begins with a group of life drawings: William Beckman’s “Study for ‘Diana IV’,” 1980, Gaston Lachaise’s “Male Nude with Arms Raised,” c.1930, a watercolor portrait by Red Grooms from 1976, Elmer Bischoff’s ”Standing Nude – Partially Clothed,” c.1965, and Bob Thompsons’s animated “Abby,” a pencil portrait from 1960. Abstraction is represented by such diverse artists as Jay DeFeo, Dorothy Dehner, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis and Alfonso Ossorio.

Other artists included in the exhibition are Walter Anderson, Robert Arneson, Milton Avery, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jose Bedia, Joan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy DeForest, Minnie Evans, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Nancy Grossman, Jacob Lawrence, Ben Shahn, Joseph Stella, Saul Steinberg, Bob Thompson, Joyce Treiman, and David Wojnarowicz.