Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies

For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his ideas take shape, featuring works on paper that Lasker created from the 1980s to the 2020s, tracking the refinement of his distinctive visual language. At once analytical and expressive, these compositions play with the visual cues of figuration, teasing allusions to portraits, landscapes, or still lifes through biomorphic forms and carefully choreographed marks. In Lasker’s hands, abstraction exists in spirited tension with representation, and the act of seeing becomes part of the story.