Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the primary career-spanning museum exhibition devoted to the drawings of the acclaimed up to date artist. On view via January 4, 2026, this present on the Morgan Library & Museum in New York Metropolis highlights greater than three a long time of Yuskavage’s intimate and creative works on paper.
Yuskavage is understood for her charged portrayals of feminine topics, infused with psychological depth, social commentary, and an everlasting dedication to the historical past of portray. Without delay confrontational and meditative, her works goal to blur the boundaries between excessive and low artwork, exploring conventional genres — the nude, portrait, panorama, and nonetheless life — with a up to date eye to problems with feminine transgression and empowerment rooted in well-liked tradition.
Lisa Yuskavage, “Rapture #2” (1993), watercolor (Personal Assortment. © Lisa Yuskavage. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.)
This exhibition reveals the centrality of drawing to Yuskavage’s follow. From early sketchbook pages to latest large-scale compositions, the presentation consists of over 40 works constructed from 1990 to the current in a variety of media — graphite, watercolor, pastel, Conté crayon, distemper, gouache, ink on paper, and extra. Whatever the undertaking, Yuskavage permits her supplies to be her information. Her career-long inquiry into course of and materials experimentation has yielded totally new methods of seeing and comprehending the world.
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Lisa Yuskavage, “Sketchbook page for Blonde Brunette and Redhead” (1995), graphite, collage, oil, and pastel on paper. (Power Villareal Assortment. © Lisa Yuskavage. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.)
Lisa Yuskavage, “Still Life Wearing a Wig” (1999), watercolor on paper. (Personal assortment © Lisa Yuskavage. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.)
Lisa Yuskavage, “The Wee Outliers, State 3” (2012), drypoint and monoprint on paper with pastel touches. (Personal assortment © Lisa Yuskavage. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.)
