Artist Daily: Filling In The White Space
May 1, 2012 - Courtney Jordan, Artist Daily
“A painter chooses color. I choose pattern,” says Roz Leibowitz, a New York City-based draftsman whose drawings are filled with intricate serpentine lines and nearly impenetrable layers of border and pattern. “I’m not a formalist, creating art based on composition or color.” Instead, as an artist with masters’ degrees in library science and literacy, Leibowitz more readily identifies with the act of writing in her work. “Most of the time when I’m drawing, I think in terms of narrative,” she says. “My brain goes to stories. To me the drawings are like poems. The patterns are like handwriting.”