Book cover for 'Drawing Myself Free' by Josefina Auslender, featuring a textured light gray background with a central abstract artwork of a red circle on a white and gray striped canvas, and the title and author name in text.

Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free

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SKU: BCMA-CAT26-AUSLENDER

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Edited by Cassandra Mesick Braun

Published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) from December 11, 2025–May 31, 2026, this eponymous book offers the first comprehensive exploration of Argentinian contemporary artist Josefina Auslender. Despite her prolific mastery of drawing and abstraction in graphite, colored pencil, and ink, Auslender has received disproportionately little attention by critics, scholars, and art institutions–until now.

This survey of Auslender's artistic career spans decades and continents, conveying her lifelong passion for creating new worlds through art. By connecting the artist’s work with key moments in her professional career, intersecting with major global events, the accessible text examines issues of gender, war, grief, trauma, diaspora–and how we all, in our own ways, grapple with feelings of isolation and connection, otherness, and belonging.

Edited by Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, this volume of essays features an oral history history interview with the artist and additional contributions from Sarah Bouchard, Véronique Plesch, Daniel R. Quiles, and Pilar Saavedra-Weiss.

Hardcover – October 13, 2026
176 pages

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