Trisha Donnelly

The unspeakable. In the dao, The spirit of the valley never dies. This is called the mysterious female. The gateway of the mysterious female Is called the root of heaven and earth. Dimly visible, it seems as if it were there, Yet use will never drain it. —Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, trans. D.C Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2001), Chapter 6. The artist Trisha Donnelly (b. 1974) has been making drawings for the past twenty-five years. She was born in San Francisco and lives and works in New York, San Francisco, and Düsseldorf. This exhibition is the first to concentrate solely on her works on paper. Organized by Olivia Shao, Burger Collection and TOY Meets Art Curator at The Drawing Center. Generous support for Trisha Donnelly is provided by Stephen Cheng, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Steve Pulimood, the Every Page Foundation, Katie and Matt Paige, the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation, Galerie Buchholz, Ellen and Michael Ringier, Sabrina Buell and Yves Béhar, and The Jay DeFeo Foundation.