The Sixties

White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the late American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99). This exhibition marks Drexler's first major presentation in Europe, and the gallery's inaugural showcase of the artist's work since announcing representation of The Lynne Drexler Archive. 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. Lynne Drexler (1928–99) was born in Newport News, Virginia, and lived and worked in New York City and Monhegan Island, Maine. Her solo exhibitions include Berry Campbell, New York (2022); Mnuchin Gallery, New York (2022); Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York (2022, 2007, 2002, 1987 and 1986); Monhegan Historical and Cultural Museum and Portland Museum of Art, Maine (2008); Jameson Modern, Portland, Maine (2007); Greenhut Gallery, Portland, Maine (2005); Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island, Maine (2003 and 1998); Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine (2003); Gallery 6, Portland, Maine (1994 and 1989); Judith Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine (1989); Gallery 127, Portland, Maine (1989); Middlesex College Community College, Piscataway, New Jersey (1984); St. John’s University, New York (1984); Aldona Gobuzas Gallery, New York (1983); Veydras Limited, New York (1983); Alonzo Gallery, New York (1975, 1973 and 1971); Nuuana Valley Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii (1967); Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California (1965); and Tanager Gallery, New York (1961). Drexler’s work is held in public collections across the United States, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles California; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; and Monhegan Museum, Maine.

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25-26 Mason's Yard, SW1Y 6BU

London, NY