Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first career-spanning museum exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the acclaimed contemporary artist. On view through January 4, 2026, this show at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City highlights more than three decades of Yuskavage’s intimate and inventive works on paper.
Yuskavage is known for her charged portrayals of female subjects, infused with psychological depth, social commentary, and an enduring commitment to the history of painting. At once confrontational and meditative, her works aim to blur the boundaries between high and low art, exploring traditional genres — the nude, portrait, landscape, and still life — with a contemporary eye to issues of female transgression and empowerment rooted in popular culture.
This exhibition reveals the centrality of drawing to Yuskavage’s practice. From early sketchbook pages to recent large-scale compositions, the presentation includes over 40 works made from 1990 to the present in a wide range of media — graphite, watercolor, pastel, Conté crayon, distemper, gouache, ink on paper, and more. Regardless of the project, Yuskavage allows her materials to be her guide. Her career-long inquiry into process and material experimentation has yielded entirely new ways of seeing and comprehending the world.
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