MAD HOT PENMAN As the American Folk Art Museum's "Obsessive Drawing" proves, you don't need an M.F.A. to make the kind of detailed marks that lead viewers to question your sanity. A math degree might help, however. Martin Thompson bases patterned diptychs on multiples of ten, patching mistakes with a scalpel and Scotch tape. Eugene Andolsek (detail of Untitled13A, pictured) uses a straightedge and compass. And Hiroyuki Doi inks circles representing "every creature ... which exists in this world" - an infinitive set, by the look of it.


Fall Preview New York, issue from September 12, 2005