Jeffrey Lew
Drawerings

Jeffrey Lew showed a 4’x18’x20″ plywood chest containing specimen drawers, each containing a slab of glass, scratched and colored with aniline dye. Since the viewer had to pull the drawers open to view the glass the work could be construed as a set or prop for a performance. Referring to the scribblings, the artist said, “If they looked anything like drawings, I threw them out.” [quoted from Alan Moore, ArtForum, April 1975, p.79]

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.