Drawing Quirks 2, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, New York, November 16 - December 16, 2003 December 9, 2002 Goings on About Town... Drawing Quirks 2 This group show earns its title, though quirkiness (like its quieter cousin, charm) can come across as cloying and affected, or refreshing and almost innocent, depending on your mood. Michael Rodgers, Stephen Bitterolf, and Tim Spelios make it into the refreshing category, especially Rodgers, whose persnickety pencil drawings of suburban interiors are spangled with elaborate decorative patterns, as if someone were building an Orientalist seraglio in his basement in Peoria. Bitterolf's Photo-Realist charcoal drawings of grass and leaves invite pleasant double-takes, and Spelios's mandala of generic clip art achieves a goofy elegance. Don't skip Rodger's road-trip video in the back gallery, which, while it isn't a drawing, describes a seeming single line that shoots from Coney Island to Santa Monica in the space of twenty minutes.