About this Event
Rizzoli Bookstore and Gagosian welcome Ewa Juszkiewicz for a signing to mark the publication of her new book, a monograph that showcases her most recent surreal and genre-defying portraits.
PLEASE NOTE:
- A book purchase is required to join the signing line.
- Only copies of the book purchased from Rizzoli Bookstore will be signed. No other items will be signed. Please don’t bring merchandise or books purchased elsewhere for signing.
- This event is first come, first served. The signing line will open inside the store at 6:00 pm. Guests who arrive earlier will be asked to line up outside the store, rain or shine.
- For accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].
- Can’t attend? Signed copies will be available to ship while supplies last. Please place your order here and request a signed copy in the comments box at checkout.
Ewa Juszkiewicz: Recent Paintings showcases the artist’s portraits of women, which turn genre conventions inside out. Classical in method but subversive in content, Juszkiewicz’s paintings deconstruct ideals of feminine beauty and the contexts in which they have arisen and persist.
Ewa Juszkiewicz paints surreal oil-on-canvas portraits of women that turn genre conventions inside out. Beginning by producing a likeness of a historical European painting—her sources date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century—Juszkiewicz expertly imitates the original’s technique and style but replaces the subject’s face with a decorative construction of her own. In some compositions, she swathes her sitter’s head in folds of fabric or lush floral arrangements; in others, she redirects an elaborately plaited hairstyle to shield the subject’s face from view. The results of this process narrate a history of erasure that runs throughout the Western canon of female portraiture.
Born in Gdańsk, Poland, Ewa Juszkiewicz lives and works between Warsaw, New York, and Marbella. Classical in method but subversive, eerie, even rebellious in content, Juszkiewicz's expertly rendered oil paintings deconstruct ideals of feminine beauty and the contexts in which they have arisen and persist. Interested in contrasts, contradictions, and seemingly incompatible juxtapositions, Juszkiewicz analyzes and transforms the past—in dialogue with the modern-day—broadening our interpretation of history through change and deconstruction. The results of this process narrate a history of effacement and erasure that runs throughout the Western canon of female portraiture.
Juszkiewicz's work has featured in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum; the Centre Pompidou Metz; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Museo Picasso Málaga; and ICA Miami. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum which will open in May 2026. Her work can be found in public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Long Museum, Shanghai, China; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France, ICA Miami, Florida; and the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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