# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2017-01-18T17:36:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Read about poet and artist Jackson Mac Low via the Poetry Society of America's website. Curator Brett Littman's writes about Mac Low's history and work, which you can view in our Drawing Room gallery starting this Friday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Jackson began drawing in his early teens and continued to create visual work throughout his life. The earliest abstract automatic drawings in this exhibition were created between 1947 and 1953 with gestural ink brushstrokes in sketchbooks or on single sheets of paper. Jackson's indebtedness to artists like Jean Arp, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, André Masson, and Joa Miró, all of whom pioneered Surrealist automatic drawings in the 1920s, is clear. His early drawings, with their loopy lines and non-representational forms, were explorations into the use of chance and non-systematic compositional techniques; he had already been studying D.T. Suzuki's writings on Zen and Kegon Buddhism in the early 1940s, and was familiar with practices and methods to release the mind from conscious influence. In 1948, Jackson attended a John Cage concert of Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano at Columbia University."-Brett Littman Go to poetrysociety.org for the full text. 
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Photo: installation of Mac Low's  work in our Drawing Room gallery.

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