Recent Work- Charcoal Drawings

Toyo Tsuchiya, who is best known for his photographs of NY’s East Village Art scene in the 1980’s, turned to snapshots that would reveal more intimate and private images of family groups, friends and neighbors, in his search to find human connection and his own identity.

In this show at Resobox, Toyo challenged himself to create a new way of drawing, using as subjects the people in his past photographs, and people found in images from newspapers, magazines and master American photographers.   He selected children, young friends, homeless people, immigrant workers and nudes for his charcoal drawings.  His subjects are larger than life.  Through his eye and hand, together with his memories, his subjects appear on the paper before us in a new and powerful existence.

Opening Party