# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B68uMrHlRH6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044161-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-01-05T18:55:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Today (Sunday, Jan 5) is the last day to visit “The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists.” The museum will be open late until 8pm!
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Featuring over 140 drawings produced over a roughly two-hundred-year period, the exhibition presents powerful evidence of the persistence of human creativity in the most inhumane of circumstances. The 73 artists on view demonstrate the ways in which drawing can serve as a vehicle for imagining freedom, allowing the mind to escape intolerable conditions through the act of creative expression.
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Images: Hubert Robert, “An Inmate of Saint-Lazare Prison,” 1794. Ink and graphite on paper. Courtesy of a private collection.
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Djamel Ameziane, “Untitled,” c. 2010. Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Alexey Wangenheim, “Полярное сияние (Polar Lights),” c.1934-1937. Pastel and watercolor on paper. Courtesy of Музей Международного Мемориала (International Memorial Museum), Moscow.
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Alexander Bogen, “Expulsion,” 1943. Sanguine on paper. Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection.
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Rodrigo Silva Vial, “Untitled,” June, 1975. Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos.
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Howling Wolf (Ho-na-nist-to), “Untitled ledger drawing,” c. 1875. Graphite and color pencil on lined paper. Courtesy of Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, Vancouver.
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