# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp9_NSEA8CD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045420-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-11-09T17:49:24.000+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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Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) propelled to stardom in the 1960s with her dynamic work that metamorphosed sculpture by using fundamental qualities of other artistic disciplines. Most innovative was Bontecou’s positioning of her pieces, which were situated on the wall instead of the ground like in traditional sculpture. Bontecou’s wall reliefs, made out of industrial materials like wire, steel, wood, and canvas, activate the space around them through their strong directionality. Usually centered around an ominous black void made from fabric, the rectangular-patterned structures extend out towards the viewer with an arresting force. Bontecou continued her transgression between mediums with her more recent sculpture that hang from the ceiling. Made from thin wire and inspired by constellations and cosmology, the vortex-like hanging sculptures cast intricate shadow patterns on the space around them, which with their complex linearity, recall the practice of drawing. “I’d work at it at night and get the light right, and it was like magic.” Bontecou explains, “All you’d see were these little white things floating. And then I’d move the light, and the ‘drawing’ of the wire would hit the wall, and I’d think, That’s better than the sculpture! That’s a great drawing!” Bontecou’s innovative sculptures broke through the confines of mediums, and in her words sought to express “as much of life as possible—no barriers—no boundaries—all freedom in every sense.”
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#LeeBontecou
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Image: Photography by Hans Namuth, 1964.

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