Point Blank (Quick Studies) is the first major publication of Bob Dylan’s artwork in over a
decade featuring nearly 100 never-before-seen drawings. Bob Dylan is a master at telling
stories creating moods and provoking feelings—not only in music and the written word but also
in visual art which he has been creating since the 1960s. This publication of his art features
nearly 100 black-and-white drawings that were completed between 2021 and 2022 and served as the
basis for his latest exhibition—also titled Point Blank —at London’s Halcyon Gallery in early
2025. The works vary between portraits still lifes and landscapes: roller-skating lovers a
suit of armor a suspension bridge a karaoke singer a roll of Scotch tape a Parisian canal
a man with a crooked smile. Accompanying the artwork are short prose vignettes written by Eddie
Gorodetsky Jackie Hamilton and Lucy Sante that further enhance the images’ evocativeness.
Dylan’s ability to find beauty and mystery in the seemingly mundane is one of his great
gifts—and the gift he’s continually given to the public over the years including now with
Point Blank .
