The Morgan Library & Museum presents Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings, the primary complete museum presentation of the artist’s drawings. Incorporating drawings from the early nineties to the current and together with sketches and completed research, the exhibition will characteristic a variety of her explorations with supplies together with work in graphite, pen, Conte, pastel, charcoal, distemper, monotype, gouache, watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper. It is going to chart Yuskavage’s career-long inquiry into how course of and materials experimentation create fully new methods to seek out pictures. From her earliest drawings of imagined figures and nonetheless lives, by means of a interval of investigation into what constitutes a mannequin, to her latest studio and panorama scenes synthesizing the true and the imagined into a brand new form of fictional actuality, Yuskavage’s drawings give perception into the best way we see and comprehend the world. Inside the jewel-like area of the Thaw Gallery, the exhibition supplies an immersive expertise, permitting the viewer to enter the artist’s thoughts.
One of the vital unique and influential artists of the previous three many years, Yuskavage creates works that affirm the integrity of her media–portray, drawing, and printmaking–whereas difficult typical artwork historic precedents.
Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is organized by Claire Gilman, Acquavella Curator and Division Head of Trendy and Up to date Drawings
