Lisa Yuskavage

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent paintings and works on paper by American artist Lisa Yuskavage, on view at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York. This will be Yuskavage’s tenth solo exhibition with David Zwirner and marks twenty years since her first show with the gallery in 2006. This exhibition follows her 2025 solo exhibition at David Zwirner Los Angeles and Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings—the first comprehensive museum presentation of the artist’s works on paper, recently on view at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. A new monograph of Yuskavage’s work was just published as part of Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists Series, with texts by Ariel Levy, Barry Schwabsky, and Lena Dunham.

One of the most original and influential artists of the past thirty-five years, Yuskavage creates works that affirm the singularity of the medium of painting while transgressing conventional understandings of genres and viewership. At once exhibitionist and introspective, her rich cast of characters and their varied attributes are layered within compositions built of both representational and abstract elements in which color is the primary vehicle of meaning.

Featuring new and recent works by the artist, the exhibition includes large- and small-format paintings, as well as a series of drawings on Color-aid paper that incorporate a range of materials including pastel, gouache, egg tempera, and collage—a new medium for the artist. In many of the works on view, Yuskavage expands on the theme of the artist’s studio, probing the nuances of her compositions and the possibilities of her chosen medium, and further developing her exacting exploration of the processes and complexities of art making. Saturated in vibrant, jewellike pigments, these scenes become stages where characters from Yuskavage’s oeuvre are intertwined and where time moves backward and forward.