Photograph of Open House, a black-and-white geometric drawing with brayered oil stick surface, showing mirror-inspired composition and a box-like form with a rotated triangular element.

Open House

(Glyph Drawing No. 12)

Oil stick and graphite on paper

19 x 24 inches

Open House (Glyph Drawing No. 12) continues the formal exploration of the series while introducing a shift in technique. Beginning as a mirror image of the previous drawing, it manipulates a few key shapes to alter the composition, yet departs from prior works by omitting charcoal entirely. The surface is created exclusively with oil stick applied by brayer, relying on the brayer to create texture and marks.

The visual motifs of home and architecture return — a rudimentary house-like shape, its triangular “roof” rotated 90 degrees on one side, suggesting an opened structure, what’s within bursting out like a jack-in-the-box. The title is a nod to a longtime friend and mentor, Robert Brinkerhoff, whose observation inspired this reading, highlighting the role of dialogue, interpretation, and collaboration in an artist’s work.

Studio shot of Open House mounted on pegboard, showing the scale of the black-and-white geometric drawing and the smooth, brayered surface.
Extreme close-up of Open House surface, showing uniform oil stick application, subtle variations in texture from brayer pressure, white cut-ins of unmarked paper, and faint remnants of graphite grid lines from earlier compositional planning.