# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BrqmEQVgz3c
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045274-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/14d589994a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-12-21T22:06:56.000+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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Nancy Graves (1939-1995) was a cross-disciplinary American artist that worked in a variety of media including sculpture, drawing, painting, and set design. Emerging from the post-minimalist 1970s era in New York, Graves was the first female artist to receive a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which featured her famous camel sculptures. Reminiscent of taxidermy, Graves’ exhibition of three realistic camels was a critical investigation into verisimilitude in art. Naturalistic sciences and visualization of information continued to be themes throughout her career which later included printmaking and painting. After her rigorous exploration into sculpture and modes of display, Graves turned to painting which drew from maps, diagrams, and satellite images to create expressive canvases that combined scientific data with abstraction. With pictures from NASA recordings, nature documentaries, and lunar maps, Graves’s work represent specific phenomena with personalized abstraction. Graves’s innovative experimentations into visual expression and representation continued throughout her prolific career as she crossed and commingled disciplines and mediums to pioneer ways of making art that resonate with contemporary art practices.
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#NancyGraves
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Image: Nancy Graves photographed with her sculpture “Variability and Repetition of Variable Forms.” Courtesy of Nancy Graves Foundation, 1971.

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