USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
August 2022
From August 26 through December 3, 2022 at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, the exhibition Necessary Angels: Jesse Murry & Lisa Yuskavage explores the bonds of the creative friendship of the two artists, who met while attending Yale School of Art. Besides giving proof to the idea that artistic friendship can transcend simple influence and achieve higher dimensions of collaboration spurred on by mutual learning, respect, and love, Necessary Angels features rarely seen paintings on paper by Murry and celebrated paintings and watercolors by Yuskavage.
Organized by USFCAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné, the exhibition constitutes only the second time since their Yale 1986 MFA thesis show that Murry's and Yuskavage's work has been presented under the same roof. It coincides with an interrelated exhibition at USFCAM, Jesse Murry: Rising, co-curated by Lisa Yuskavage and Jarrett Earnest, which originated at David Zwirner in New York in the fall of 2021.
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