Opening Reception: Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. This will be the first major drawing retrospective of Joan Jonas, one of the most experimental and significant voices in American art of the postwar period.

Although Jonas’s work has received critical attention and acclaim over the past few decades, her voluminous drawing oeuvre, which constitutes the backbone of her video, performance, and sculpture practices, has never been surveyed. The exhibition will be a definitive look at the integral place of drawing in the career of this pioneering feminist artist. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral will occupy the entirety of The Drawing Center's gallery spaces and will feature more than three hundred individual drawings dating from the 1960s to the present as well as a recent drawing environment that will be presented in the United States for the first time.