First Friday: alive on the page in black and white

Mark Sheinkman’s “2-23-2003” (detail right) is just one of a number of terrific pieces at Gallery Joe‘s Graphite and Paper show that opened yesterday. Sheinkman’s pieces all suggested a microscopic world made visible and 3-D. Dean Smith’s “florescence” drawings, which looked like iron filings arranged by a magnet, Stefana McClure’s barely-visible glyphs on graphite paper, and James Nelson’s topographic business card drawings also had graphite gravitas. Check it out.