Jim Nutt: Shouldn’t We Be More Careful, currently at the David Nolan Gallery, offers an all-too-rare exposure to the acerbic and piquant portrait drawings of this contemporary master. In Nutt’s recent linear graphite “portraits,” his spare but provocatively expressive markings on cold-pressed paper distill the essential attributes of his fictitious models.
In his first show of new work in over a decade, he has been occupied with a single subject: a portrait of a woman, in which he finds endless variation and human emotion.