BLOOMFIELD HILLS.- The Cranbrook Art Museum will open the exhibit Artists at Work: Instruction Drawings from the Collection of Gilbert and Lila Silverman on September 16, and will run until October 29. At what point in the creative process does a work become an artwork? Artists at Work illuminates the nature of art by focusing on the creative process---offering insight into the artist’s eventful path and phases in the production of artworks. The exhibition includes over 180 examples of instruction drawings in a variety of forms, such as working drawings, installation instructions, musical scores, sketches, visual or textual memoranda, fabrication notes, and work records.

Drawn from Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection of nearly 800 instruction drawings, Artists at Work features works by the leading and celebrated figures of Pop Art, Op Art, Conceptual Art and Earth Art from 1930 to the present. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Robert Rauschenberg, Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, Roy Lichtenstein, Dennis Oppenheim, Christo, Robert Gober, Dan Flavin and Claes Oldenburg, Robert Mangold, Andy Goldswork, Vito Acconci, Tom Wesselman.