Days

DAYS presents the pencil drawings of Brian Calvin, selected from sketchbooks in which he made one a day over the course of a year. Presented chronologically, they include glimpses of family life, cubist portraits, drafts for sculptures, abstract compositions, and comic cartoons, with human figures reduced to their most expressive elements. These images give us an intimate sense of the thought and process of an artist who has been described as “quietly disconcerting and mischievously witty” (Artforum). Calvin’s work has been widely shown, nationally and internationally; it is included in the permanent collections of the Orange County Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.