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Philip Guston: Room, Sea, and Sky

Philip Guston, Room, 1980.

Sept 3 – Oct 26, 2024
443 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Philip Guston moved through a number of painting styles before reaching neo-expressionism. The 1930s saw him working as a muralist with the WPA. In the 50s he embraced Abstract Expressionism. In the 60s, he rejected abstraction and its dramas and began to create the cartoonlike imagery—implacable and haunting—that stunned the world. With his new figurative style came a shift into sinister territory: hooded figures, disembodied limbs, cities made of old shoes and lone light bulbs. This show zooms in on the artist’s often overlooked printmaking practice, which is an essential facet of his oeuvre. —Elena Clavarino