"Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms"

Hiroyuki Doi, "Untitled", 1990. Ink on washi, 25 1/4 × 39 in. (64.1 × 99.1 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Stephanie and John Smither. © Hiroyuki Doi; all rights reserved. Photo: Paul Hester

"Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms" examines drawing as a meditative process that invites the gradual appearance of indeterminate images. Selected from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, this display of twenty-nine drawings dating from the late 1930s to the present share a visual language of emerging forms.