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This exhibition is the first-ever museum retrospective of drawings by Josefina Auslender, whose work in graphite, colored pencil, and ink spans decades and continents. Born in Buenos Aires in 1934, Auslender explored her passion for art from an early age before committing herself to the medium of drawing in the 1970s. Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free features more than 100 drawings created in Argentina and the United States that collectively reflect her enduring interest in building new worlds through the visual languages of abstraction and Surrealism. The act of drawing is, as Auslender explains with unabashed joy, “like going on a spaceship to the stars.” It is a journey she has continued to pursue for more than sixty years while navigating loss, war, trauma, and diaspora—all in pursuit of the freedom that comes with expressing one’s true self through artmaking.

This exhibition is organized with support from the Riley P. Brewster ’77 Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and International Artists Manifest.