Jasper Johns: Drawings 1982-2021

Exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 13 September - 16 October 2024

In 1964, Jasper Johns (1930-) encapsulated his approach to art making: “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.” These motifs include autobiographical references, the American flag, patterns like the flagstone or harlequin print, and images taken from other artists such as John Cage, Picasso, de Kooning, and Rodin.

Spanning the last forty years of Johns’s long career, this exhibition catalogue features many of the artist’s well-known motifs, which draw from an extensive personal lexicon of symbols and images. It includes twenty-one drawings in a wide variety of media, many of which have rarely or never been exhibited.