Anita Rogers Gallery presents "The Drawing Show" for 10th anniversary

Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting The Drawing Show, on view March 11- April 18, 2026 at 494 Greenwich Street in New York. Tomas Watson joins curated this special exhibition that features works by Bo Bartlett, Noah Buchanan, Michael Grimaldi, Amaya Gurpide, Phil Hale, Jordan Sokol & Tomas Watson. In the mid 90s, the French novelist/historian Olivier Delorme remarked to me, "Drawing is to painting what grammar is to writing." At the time, I agreed with him, but over the years, I have found drawing to be so much more than that, to the extent that it defies a straightforward description. Many people (myself included) will often gauge an artist’s merits based on the qualities found in their drawings. But what exactly are these qualities and how can we define what drawing is? A traditional definition of drawing might be that it had a function, that it was the preparatory work, or study, for a large, commissioned painting. These drawings would be made from life, and by necessity and pra