Drawings Alan Glass: Paris 1954-1962

Utilising the newly invented ballpoint pen from 1954, Alan Glass used this modest instrument to create remarkably intricate and detailed drawings, in which appearance of inert matter coming alive. There are some in which he used such an abundance of ink that the drawings almost take on the texture of paintings.

Alan Glass’s drawings from the 1950s are like swirls of smoke on the verge of assuming solid shape, like rock coming alive and metamorphosing, like plants and animals commingling, the...