Juxtaposing the work of three intergenerational artists—Ray Yoshida (1930–2009), Christina Ramberg (1946–1995), and Deborah Druick (b. 1951)—“BODIES” homes in on how each artist explores color, pattern, and more specifically figuration at a time when abstraction otherwise reigned supreme.
Ramberg, currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Yoshida were both closely tied to the Chicago art scene and drew inspiration from the pervasive cultural and political milieus they worked within. Similarly, Druick’s work is deeply engaged with the history and trajectory of feminist art, influenced by both Eastern and Western views of women and women’s bodies. Together, the show presents each artist’s formal as well as thematic explorations—highlighting how they diverged and overlapped—which still hold as relevant today as when they were made.
