# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BvURtaDALaV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044984-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/0aea82bb5b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-03-22T16:11:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Mark Steven Greenfield (b. 1951) is an American visual artist whose recent body of abstract drawings investigate the subconscious effect that racial imagery has on the African American experience. Greenfield draws in a calligraphic and graphically abstract style to work through and around the power of stereotypical images by way of psychological mapping. Similar to automatist techniques and intuitive mark making, Greenfield is driven by his subconscious to create patterns and shapes that spill from an uncontrolled emptying of his brain. Oftentimes listening to music, Greenfield’s drawing sessions last for hours and are a form of meditation that ruminate the negative space on the page. Greenfield explains: “My work is intended to stimulate dialog on race, politics and spirituality and toward that end I feel I’ve been successful. It is deeply rooted in “Shadow Theory” and encourages the practice of taking possession of that which constitutes the negative in one’s experience in order to take the power away from it.” The thoughtful negotiation between line and negative space result in striking patterns that hold psychological weight while powerfully undermining mainstream imagery.
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#MarkStevenGreenfield  dawggie51
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Image: Photograph courtesy of Voyage LA, 2018.

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