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Sam the Butcher Contemporary Art is presenting Leon Rosenblatt's Streamers: Subconscious Images; a series of forty graphite drawings that flow into each other in an ongoing, surrealistc landscape of juxtaposed objects.
Rosenblatt refers to this process as "streaming" as he creates the drawings from his subconscious memory. Starting randomly on each page, he uses no references, still life objects or photographs. What first seems to be abstract becomes three dimensionally alive, even if the objects are often just beyond the recognizable.
These inconsistent groups of images are woven together so gently they seem to have always been connected to each other, integral component of their yet undiscovered landscapes.
The drawings themselves ar dark and thick, not only in thier hinting of a gnarled and littered futuristic landscape, but in the vigorous, sometimes heavy application of the graphite itself. There is so much layering and rubbing of the surface, it seems impossible that in the beginning, Rosenblatt simply started with a few marks on a blank sheet of paper.
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