White Cube presents an exhibition dedicated to the late American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99).
White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the late American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99). This exhibition marks Drexler’s first major presentation in Europe, and the gallery’s inaugural showcase of the artist’s work since announcing representation of The Lynne Drexler Archive in November 2023.
Affiliated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Drexler’s vivid chromatic compositions reflect a breadth of stylistic influences, and draw from Impressionism, Fauvism and Pointillism. Executed through tessellated rectangles of paint, Drexler’s complex fields of colour emanate an organic, kinetic dynamism that recall her appreciation for nature and classical music.
Her work is eminently recognisable and of its time, emblematic of the experimental mid-century zeitgeist through technical explorations of colour, form and spatial tension, as well as attuned to the histories of preceding art movements. Residing on the periphery of the mainstream art canon during her lifetime – eclipsed, in part, by her more lauded male counterparts, including her husband, John Hultberg, Drexler shared the fate of many female artists of the post-war era who are only now being reintegrated into the annals of art history.
Lynne Drexler (1928–99) was born in Newport News, Virginia, and lived and worked in New York City and Monhegan Island, Maine. Her work is held in public collections across the United States, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles California; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; and Monhegan Museum, Maine.
Listings
Lynne Drexler The Sixties
27 November 2024 to 10 January 2025
Preview: 26 November 2024, 6–8pm
White Cube, 25 – 26 Mason’s Yard, London SW1Y 6BU
Further Information: Lynne Drexler, Mason's Yard (2024) | White Cube