Recorded at the Lannan Foundation Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico on July 9, 2015.
Artist James Drake provided commentary on his exhibit at Lannan Foundation Gallery.
Born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1946 and raised in Guatemala, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, James Drake received both his MFA and his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His art has been displayed across the country, from the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, New York to the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington DC to the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2014, Drake’s collection Anatomy of Drawing and Space: Brain Trash traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas at Austin for exhibition. He has published three books: James Drake (University of Texas Press, 2008); James Drake: Red Drawings & White Cut-Outs (Radius Books, 2012); and James Drake: 1242 (Radius Books, 2015). Drake is the recipient of numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1988, 1989), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2001), and a Nancy Graves Award for Visual Arts (2001).
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