# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BqF7rBggzSV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045389-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-11-12T19:52:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

“For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn” is on view in our Main Gallery. Wed-Sun 12-6pm | Thur 12-8pm

Via toyinojihodutola
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This portrait was drawn during a transitional phase in my studio. The incorporating of the pastel skin patina beyond the matte charcoal I had been using predominantly the year before. 
I tend to use my face as a platform to experiment with new materials and this "self portrait" served as a test to see if I could pull it off, just months before I began the work for my solo exhibition at whitneymuseum for #ToWanderDetermined. 
Looking at this work now, it feels miles away. I remember feeling nervous about it, packing in too many marks, which I later softened as I got more accustomed to the materials. This might sound strange, but to call this a self portrait feels unnerving to me. Seeing "her," I sense the kind of woman I may or may not have known once. She seems contented, but anxious. Her eyes haunting.... The disassociation is wild.
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The Many Ways To Work It Out, 2016-17, #ToyinOjihOdutola. 
Part of the group exhibition, #ForOpacity, at drawingcenter, through February 2019.

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