Grasses (1), contemporary realist graphite botanical still life drawing, 20202020

Working in opulent gold and luxe graphite, Margot Glass exalts the prosaic. The gentle curves and ungroomed over growth of her subject are an unwitting stage for her goldpoint and graphite. Glass works quite slowly, pulling her gold with a stylus and carefully modeling the ebb and wane of her veins, stems, and delicate buds. Though fixed into monumental permanence, Margot preserves the kinetic energy of her plants in her overlapping, wild compositions.