The Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

The Chicago artist Peter Karklins makes small, hermetic drawings that capture with pencil and paper the disturbing processes and energies that are just beneath the surface of human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the the artist's meticulous recording of the times and circumstances of production on the reverse of each image. In this volume, brief essays by 16 scholarly commentators deploy a wide range of theoretical approaches towards interpretation of Karklins's unusual images and artistic practice.