On view at Nathalie Karg Gallery (127 Elizabeth St), are Vera Iliatova’s nine new works titled The Drawing Lesson. Featured frontally here are young women, each caught in a significant, quasi- cinematic pose; flowers in vases, cropping up to intrude on human activity; art books, shoes, and fabrics scattered on the floor; statues and ceramic figurines competing for our attention with the models; easels and sketchbooks, as well as a standing oval mirror that may reflect one of the canvases against the walls. Plus the moveable furniture, chairs, and tables, where a young woman may sit, or the ladder, platform, and staircase where another may stand, the better to see or be seen. Finally, there is the window wall in the rear plane, translucent or, when open, giving onto a river and barges.
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