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After the Drawing Center's bid for a new home at ground zero, the center announced that its executive director, Catherine de Zegher, would resign. Several people who work with the Drawing Center said that strains had developed between Ms. de Zegher and the Drawing Center's president, George Negroponte, in the negotiations involved in moving to ground zero. But in an interview, Ms. de Zegher went further in discussing the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which oversees the downtown rebuilding effort. Under her direction, the Drawing Center has presented both historical and contemporary shows. A touring exhibition of Eva Hesse's drawings that Ms. de Zegher jointly curated with Elisabeth Sussman is coming to the Drawing Center's current site on Wooster Street in May. After a long power struggle set off by the Drawing Center's bid for a new home at ground zero, the center announced yesterday that its executive director, Catherine de Zegher, would resign at the end of the month. While commending Ms. de Zegher, who led the art institution for seven years, board members said they wanted someone new to lead the center through its planned move from SoHo. The chairwoman of the Drawing Center, Andrea Woodner, steering committee on the building project, suggested that Ms. de Zegher a curator and writer would have been frustrated by an increase in tasks required of her, from fund-raising to public relations to strategic planning.