First presented in the group exhibition 24h (2022) at BRAUNSFELDER in Cologne, Wobbly (2021) dates from a pivotal time in Grace Weaver's practice. The artist's charcoal drawings turn an incisive yet empathetic eye onto the self-conscious performativity and precarious footing of her contemporaries. Depicting emotive, elastic-limbed figures that drip tears into their coffee mugs and collide on bustling street-corners, her works on paper capture movement with an economy of expression to convey the interior and social narratives underlying everyday excursions in public space.

Grace Weaver’s charcoal drawings are imbued with a buoyancy and lightness that belies the weight of her figures’ rounded limbs. As opposed to the defined solidity of her paintings, in her drawings volumes are more tenuously contained by a delicate line that is alternately confident and wavering.  Passages of smudged-out charcoal convey a sense of perpetual motion and reveal the process of her compositional thinking.

Grace Weaver (b. 1989 in Vermont, USA) graduated with an MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond in 2015. Her work is featured in the collections of Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Philara Collection, Düsseldorf; 8smicka Collection, Humpolec; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; ARoS Museum, Aarhus; and the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus.