“Red Gnomon” by Jason Lord
Interposed by Leroi DeRubertis & Jason Lord
July 11th- October 5th, 2025
Durham Arts Council Semans Gallery
Third Friday opening, July 18th from 6-8pm
Closing event, August 15th from 6-8pm
Interposed is a collection of drawings that challenges the preconceived notions of what drawings are. We push the lines and work lines, play with movement and light far beyond pencil renderings and charcoal smudges. Our exhibit is a collection of drawings in atypical mediums that prove that lines may appear simple but offer complexities and be dynamic with the use of minimal color. Our cohesive body of work is an illustration of how collaboration opens the possibility for surprising new relationships in artwork. These drawings translate our experiences as artists, long-time Durham residents, and human beings living in a complex time.
About the Artists
Leroi DeRubertis draws with wire. Her work is often referred to as sculpture, but as she manipulates a line in two dimensions and uses light to create shadows, it is drawing. She abstracts the human form with a single line. These pieces speak to individual and collective humanity. For her series, Flutter, she considered the endangerment of pollinators and repurposed scrap wires to sketch abstractions of butterflies.
Jason Lord works prolifically and experimentally with diverse materials and processes to investigate the question, What does it mean to be human? While his inquiry-based practice often manifests in interdisciplinary work, drawing is the foundation of his creative process. His work in Interposed shifts along a spectrum of abstraction and representation, using the element of line as the dominant visual language to ask sub questions about the human experience: Where do ideas come from? What is the relationship between drawing, writing, and thinking? Where does one thing end and another begin?
