OY/YO

source: nyc-artsorg

OY/YO is Deborah Kass’ first monumental sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s newly-renovated Main Street lawn this November. Commissioned by Two Trees and presented in partnership with Brooklyn Bridge Park, the sculpture will be on view through August 2016 and coincides with No Kidding, an exhibition of new works by Deborah Kass opening at Paul Kasmin Gallery, December 9, 2015 – January 23, 2016.

Walking the line between respectful homage and brazen appropriation, Brooklyn-based artist Deborah Kass mimics and reworks the signature styles of iconic 20th century male artists —including Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Indiana – often with a feminist twist. OY/YO is sourced from urban and Brooklyn slang, the statement “I am” in Spanish, and the popular Yiddish expression, as a riff on Ruscha’s iconic word paintings.
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source: paulkasmingallery

(b. 1952, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY)

Deborah Kass employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity. Kass’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The New Orleans Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, among others.

Recent group shows include “Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze” at the National Portrait Gallery, “Come Together Sandy,” Industry City, Brooklyn, 2013, “I, You, We” at the Whitney Museum of American art, 2013, and “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.

Recent solo exhibitions include “feel good paintings for feel bad times,” “MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times” and “My Elvis+” at Paul Kasmin Gallery. In 2012, The Andy Warhol Museum hosted “Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective.” Her historical series from 1998 “America’s Most Wanted” will have its first ever viewing in New York at Sargent’s Daughters in May 2015. Paul Kasmin Gallery will present a new body of work “Black and Blue” in December 2015.

In 2014, Kass was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Board of the Andy Warhol Foundation and is Senior Critic of the Yale University MFA Painting Program.
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source: artnet

Deborah Kass (American, b.1952) is a Texas-born artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and identity. Kass received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program and the Art Students League of New York. She is a senior critic in Yale University’s painting MFA program. Most recently, her work was included in Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Solo exhibitions have included Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective, at the Andy Warhol Museum, and My Elvis +, at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and the Fogg Museum in Boston, as well as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.