Uncool Gallery presents Measures, a solo exhibition by Campbell Brod Uncool Gallery presents Measures, a solo exhibition by Campbell Brod, hosted at Lista Studios in Brooklyn as part of a space partnership between Uncool Gallery and Lista Studios. Measures is presented as part of Uncool Gallery’s Solo Show Open Call, a quarterly curatorial project supporting artists through exhibitions, features, and dialogue. Through this project, the selected artist receives a $1,000 stipend and a solo exhibition developed with Uncool Gallery. In Measures, Brod uses drawing as a structure for art-thinking, investigating how measurement becomes form through the relationship between tool, surface, and spatial perception. The exhibition brings together drafted drawings, MDF works, sketchbooks, projection media, drawing instruments, and modular display structures. Together, these elements extend the act of drawing into a field of material decisions and procedural relations. Working from the language of architectural drafting, Brod examines how legibility is produced, withheld, interrupted, or displaced. The drafted line appears as a mark of measurement and as a residue of movement, calibration, and time. Grids, curves, repeated traces, and spatial fragments register the contact between body, instrument, and surface. The exhibition’s title points to measurement as an artistic condition. Brod approaches measurement as a process that organizes attention. Scale and alignment become ways to test how form emerges through constraint and error. The resulting works occupy a threshold between plan and image, where the drawing remains open to ambiguity. Measures foregrounds the instrument as an active part of the drawing process. The tool changes the hand’s relation to the mark, determines possible gestures, and generates forms that exceed direct control. In Brod’s work, drawing operates as a mediated practice in which the artist thinks through the tool. This focus aligns with Uncool Gallery’s ongoing investment in art-thinking: the capacity of artistic practice to produce knowledge through material operation and contextual research. Measures presents drawing as a method of inquiry, where form is constructed through the systems that appear to regulate it. The exhibition will be accompanied by Drawing Machines, a participatory workshop inviting visitors to build simple drawing machines and explore how the separation between arm, instrument, and mark changes the experience of making an image. The program is offered as part of the space partnership with Lista Studios and extends the central questions of the exhibition into a shared exercise in tool-mediated drawing.