# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B9evQropaRw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044058-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-03-08T17:01:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Happy International Women’s Day! For #womenshistorymonth we are honoring women artists as part of womeninthearts’s #5womenartists campaign, which asks organizations and museums around the world to name five women artists as a way to bring spotlighted attention to their work and practices. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Today we are naming mystically-minded female artists whose abstract ways of making art have long been underrecognized, including the geometric and spiritual drawings featured in our 2005 exhibition “3x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Emma Kunz, Hilma af Klint, and Agnes Martin.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Along with this legendary trio of artists, Guo Fengyi,  an artist currently on view in “To See from a Distance,” similarly used abstraction as a way to achieve higher consciousness and self-knowledge. As an artist without academic art training, Guo developed her visual language through internal visioning processes that she experienced while practicing qigong, an ancient Chinese wellness and healing technique that incorporates movement, breathing, and meditation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Learn more about how these four artists used artmaking as an extension of their spiritual quests via the link in our bio. Comment a fifth mystic women artist below! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“Guo Fengyi: To See from a Distance” is on view now, and admission to the museum is currently FREE!  Wed - Sun, 12pm - 6pm | Thurs 12pm - 8pm⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Image: Guo Fengyi, "Fengshui Diagram of the Moon Seen from a Distance," 1989. Colored ink on calendar paper. Courtesy of Long March Space.

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