Musa Mayer on Writing, Curation, and the Guston Legacy

‘Life with P.’ illuminates intimate and rarely observed aspects of Philip Guston’s art. The groundbreaking 20th century master is best known his for raw, painterly explorations of sociopolitical power and sobering inspections of human nature. This exhibition will showcase a selection of Guston’s more intimate paintings and works on paper in which the artist ruminates on his marriage to poet Musa McKim and their lives together in Woodstock. Among works on view will be a collection of Guston’s ‘Poem Pictures,’ drawings that respond to his wife’s poetry, as well as three large-scale figurative paintings that have never been shown in a gallery or museum before.