EVENT DESCRIPTION
White Cube is pleased to present the first exhibition in Asia of paintings by American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99).
Coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, Lynne Drexler: The Seventies will debut never-before-seen works created during a pivotal decade in the artist’s practice.
Affiliated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement, the artist’s vivid chromatic compositions reflect a breadth of stylistic influences, drawing from Impressionism, Fauvism and Pointillism, as well as classical music and the natural landscape. Executed through tessellated rectangles of paint, Drexler’s colour fields emanate an organic, kinetic dynamism.
The exhibition follows White Cube’s first solo presentation of her work at Mason’s Yard, London, in November 2024, and the gallery’s announcement of the representation of The Lynne Drexler Archive in 2023.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Affiliated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement of the late 1950s and early ’60s,
Lynne Drexler’s symphonic and vividly chromatic compositions synthesise a breadth of stylistic influences, merging Impressionism, Fauvism and Pointillism with the ‘Push and Pull’ theory imparted by her teacher, Hans Hofmann. 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.
