Pandora's Box: Warren Criswell's Drawings

These drawings range from 1985 to the present. Many are studies for paintings or sculptures, but all are on the front line of my discovery of the visible world. I had dumped the camera cold turkey and started carrying a sketch pad with me everywhere. I felt like I was learning to draw all over again. As Holmes said of Watson, I had seen but I had not observed. Now I began observing not only common, everyday things that had been hiding in plain sight, and dark forbidden places which I saw as temples of erotic worship, but also the images in my head, emerging out of books or music, and trying to translate it all into marks on paper. So now, like Pandora, I am releasing them from the box.