Philip Guston Now

Debra Bricker Balken is an award-winning independent curator, scholar, and writer who has assembled numerous exhibitions on subjects relating to the American modernism and contemporary art for major museums internationally. Her recent publications include Arthur Dove, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things (Yale University Press, 2021), Harold Rosenberg, A Critic’s Life (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets (GRAY and Artbook | D.A.P. 2023) She is currently serving as the lead curator on Americans in Paris, Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 for the Grey Art Gallery at New York University among other projects.

Artist Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He is represented by Fredericks & Freiser in New York, M+B in Los Angeles and Loyal in Stockholm. In 2016, he co-curated the traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo. Gibson has released two artist books,_ Some Monsters Loom Large_ (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). In 2021, Gibson was awarded a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and a Hodder Fellowship from Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.

Mark Hudson is the art critic of The Independent and a London correspondent for the Brooklyn Rail. His books include Titian, the Last Days, Our Grandmothers’ Drums (winner of the Thomas Cook Award and the Somerset Maugham Award), Coming Back Brockens (winner of the AT&T Award for Non-Fiction), and The Music in my Head. He has written for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and many other publications.

Steve Locke (b.1963) was born in Cleveland, OH and lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s practice critically engages with the Western canon to interrogate the connections between desire, identity, and violence. Extending his commitment to a painting practice, he began to seek alternative ways to amplify public engagement around his art, partnering with institutions, municipalities, and even the US Postal Service to reach new audiences. Throughout his artistic career, Locke’s practice has questioned how we ascribe meaning to portraiture and pushes viewers to confront and critically engage with a complicated present and painful past.

Working from a heterogeneous array of cultural traditions, Chris Martin (b. 1954, Washington, D.C.) makes paintings that serve as living documents of the eternal present. Chris Martin has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, and his paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other museums. Paintings, a career-spanning monograph, was published by Skira in 2017. Martin lives and works in Brooklyn and the Catskills, New York.

For more than thirty years, Lisa Yuskavage’s highly original approach to figurative painting has challenged conventional understandings of the genre. She has been represented by David Zwirner since 2005. Yuskavage’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2000) and many others. The 2018 two-part exhibition at David Zwirner marked her sixth gallery solo show. In 2020, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Aspen Art Museum co-organized a solo presentation of the artist’s work, Wilderness. Yuskavage’s work is held at the Art Institute of Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and many other renowned institutions around the world. Yuskavage lives and works in New York.

Harry Cooper is curator of modern art at the National Gallery of Art. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Cooper studied studio art at the Corcoran and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard with a dissertation on Piet Mondrian. He worked at the Harvard Art Museums for a decade before joining the National Gallery in 2008. He has organized or co-organized exhibitions on the work of Mondrian, Medardo Rosso, Frank Stella, Stuart Davis, Oliver Jackson, and Black “self-taught” artists of the South. His latest exhibition, a Philip Guston retrospective, will conclude its run at Tate Modern on February 25th.