Austin Thomas’s drawings, Lots of little things, currently on view at LABspace, a small gallery in a tiny town, are diminutive in size but vast in scope. Arranged in three irregular rows on one wall, these forty-odd drawings offer the viewer enough to look at for several hours. I have been to the show three times and was sorry to leave each time. They seem to display almost everything drawing can be.
Thomas incorporates pieces of postcards, old magazines, pictures, the covers and slightly yellowed endpapers of old books, pages torn from a stranger’s old ledgers, and pencil sketches of animals (also possibly done by someone else), with pieces of her own prints and drawings. A full range of drawing materials are utilized – graphite, colored pencils, ink, water colors, and collage in both two and three dimensions. Thomas moves fluidly amongst her materials like a great drummer, going from snare to cymbal to bass and back again.
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