Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) was a Swedish artist that pioneered abstraction with her geometric paintings and works on paper that are symbolic pursuits of rendering the invisible visible. Seeking to represent essential knowledge of the universe using concepts like theosophy and rosicrucianism, af Klint created abstract images that employ symbols and colors to construct a meaningful visual vocabulary. Although one of the first abstract artists, unlike icons Piet Mondrian and Vasily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint has not been recognized as a key figure in untying representation from art. Af Klint’s paintings, notebooks, and works on paper, have remained in privacy up until the early 2000s. “3x Abstraction,” an exhibition at The Drawing Center in 2005, featured her work alongside Agnes Martin and Emma Kunz, whose artistic approaches similarly sought to visualize philosophical ide...