Artist Talk | Alexander Purves (Friday, April 17 | 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM)

Friday, April 17 | 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM 

Location: Washington Art Association General Studio

Join Alexander Purves for an artist lecture and walk-through exploration of his current exhibition Sketchbooks: Traveling.

The event is free to the public and we can’t thank Alec enough for his time and hard work putting this show together, and for sharing his work with WAA and the surrounding community. 

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About Sketching, text by Alexander Purves

Drawing helps me to see. It forces me to look hard. It requires effort, but it also gives great pleasure, and looking back at these travel sketches brings memories to life. Some drawings are careful records, others are rapid gestures. I draw whatever catches my eye and triggers my curiosity. It could be a shape, a beam of light, a person. I typically use a ball point pen when I travel. It’s convenient, doesn’t smudge, and it responds to pressure. But I also recognize that my fascination with line was cultivated during a Yale undergraduate freehand drawing course taught by Josef Albers, who only allowed us to use the point of the pencil.

Sketchbooks are visual journals. They are private and are not intended for public viewing, however others have encouraged me to show them, as they illustrate the ways I see.

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Alexander Purves

Alexander Purves graduated from Yale College in 1958 and following a three-year tour in the US Army, received a Master’s Degree from the School of Architecture in 1965. Following ten years as an architect with Davis, Brody & Associates in New York City he moved to New Haven in 1976 to join the faculty of the School of Architecture and to open his own practice.

Having coordinated and taught design studios at all levels in the School of Architecture, Purves currently restricts his teaching to “Introduction to Architecture”, an undergraduate course open to any student in the University.

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