# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/5r4Ctqx17z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16049909-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-07-28T15:53:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Our Communications Director Molly Gross was visiting Chicago’s amazing MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) found this striking work by Rashid Johnson in their current exhibit, The “Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now”. The exhibit links the vibrant legacy of the 1960s African American avant-garde to current art and culture. It is occasioned in part by the 50th  anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a still-flourishing organization of Chicago musicians whose interdiscliplinary explorations expanded the boundaries of jazz. 
Rashid Johnson’s “Roscoe’s Target” (detail, see full piece in last post), 2014 is, in part, a tribute to AACM member Roscoe Mitchell. In the work’s center is a copy of the album “Sound”, recorded by the Roscoe Mitchell Sextet in 1966. ~~~~~
This October Johnson will be taking over The Drawing Center’s Drawing Room with his upcoming exhibition “Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men”, Oct 2-Dec 20. The core of the exhibition is a new series of black-soap-and-wax-on-tile portraits that Johnson calls his “anxious men.” #MCAchicago MCACHICAGO #TheFreedomPrinciple #RashidJohnson #upcoming

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thefreedomprinciple, upcoming, rashidjohnson, mcachicago

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