# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BkiMEgUBccv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045766-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-06-27T16:06:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

At the Queens Museum, “Mel Chin: All Over the Place”, presents a multi-location exhibition with manifestations of the work of Mel Chin co-produced by the Queens Museum and No Longer Empty. The exhibition spans nearly four decades of Chin’s malleable and wide-ranging approach to artistic practice.
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These haunting portraits presented in “straight-jacket” frames portray three seemingly unrelated individuals: a notoriously abusive CEO (Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap), a murderer killed by lethal injection (William Garner), and a composer (Ludwig Van Beethoven). What these men have in common is suspected lead poisoning which may have led to the violent and erratic behavior all three displayed. The works are drawn with a lead point in which a metal stylus is dragged across a prepared surface. Areas of metal point drawings will shift in tone and color as the oxidization process occurs. Eventually the lead will become nearly invisible, like most toxic lead in our environment. In fact, every time the artist shows these works, they have to be drawn again. 
queensmuseum #MuseumInstaSwap => the swap includes 42 participating NYC culture institutions. Follow the hashtag to learn about  them all!
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Image: Me Chin,“Lead Point Portraits”, 2013 Al (White Reaper), Lud=Wig, and William (Dark Reaper). Metal point (lead) on prepared ground on recycled file folders and accounting paper;  artist-designed frames: plexi, wood, canvas, leather and brass. Courtesy the artist.

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