#TBT In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are highlighting 3 x Abstraction, exhibited in March 2005, which presented the work of three pioneering women artists: Hilma af Klint (Sweden, 1862–1944), Emma Kunz (Switzerland, 1892–1963), and Agnes Martin (Canada/U.S., 1912–2004). These three artists, each from a different generation spanning the last one hundred years, approached geometric abstraction not as formalism, but as a means of visualizing philosophical, scientific, and transcendental ideas. Hilma af Klint created experimental “automatic drawings” as early as 1896, which inspired af Klint to turn to abstraction. Emma Kunz described her creative work as follows: "Shape and form expressed as measurement, rhythm, symbol and transformation of figure and principle". Agnes Martin drew on the ideas of Buddhist scholar D.T. Suzuki and her interest in Asian philosophies which took form through her mesmerizing grid drawings. Image: Hilma af Klint, "Series II, No.3d, The Christian Re...