.jpg "Drake Carr Is Taking His Walk Ins Artist Residency All The Way To Paris")
That said, Les Walk-Ins, as he mentioned, will be a little different from the past. For one thing, those walking into Mariposa to be drawn will have been cast already and have made an appointment to come by. And for another: Carr is open to working outside the gallery environment before bringing the art back to be installed at the space. “I will be drawing at Mariposa, but I will also draw in people’s homes, maybe in their hotels, maybe in a museum,” he says. “If someone is only free at 9 pm, I will be drawing them at nine. But I love to draw in the morning with coffee, too, so I am open. It might be a few long days, and some days where I’m walking around and getting some inspiration.”
As to who he will be drawing, Carr is thinking about a few friends and acquaintances who will be in town for the shows—Dara Allen, say, and Ethan James Green; perhaps set decorator Julia Wagner, or Bryn Taubensee, one half of Vaquera—but the leap into the unknown is thrilling for him. “In New York, even if I don’t know someone personally, I have an idea of who’s out and about and who’s part of a group,” he said. “In Paris, I’m not nearly as familiar. This is the first time I am taking Walk-Ins on the road, so I don’t know exactly what to expect or how the city will show up in the drawings. Some people make me want to use a lot of color, or be really delicate, or be really fast and use a lot of black, making big strokes and gestures. I am really curious as to how things will be different.”