The resonance with this work is that so many can identify with it. Identity is a noun. It is what you are. It’s how you come out of your mother. But when you identify with something outside of yourself, it’s active. It’s a verb. That’s how you start constructing who you are as a subject, a person—internally, emotionally, spiritually—and imagining how you can be in the world. Now people say, “If you can see it you can be it.” This is the very meaning of inspiration. — Deborah Kass*

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE—a show that pairs new work with historical pieces by Kass—is now on view in Chicago. See link below for details.

DEBORAH KASS—PAINTING AND SCULPTURE*

Through February 1.

Kavi Gupta

219 North Elizabeth Street, Chicago.

Deborah Kass, Painting and Sculpture, Kavi Gupta, September 11, 2020–February 1, 2021, from top: Don’t Stop, 2019, acrylic and neon on canvas; After Louise Bourgeois, 2010, neon and transformers on powder coated aluminum; Daddy I Would Love to Dance (Rays / Stella), 2008, acrylic on canvas; Just a Shot Away, 2015, acrylic on canvas; Painting and Sculpture installation view; Kass in front of Everybody, 2019, acrylic and neon on canvas; Emergency (Red, Yellow, Blue), 2019 (detail), acrylic and neon on canvas; Don’t Stop 3 (Yellow, Yellow, Yellow), 2020, acrylic and neon on canvas. Images © Deborah Kass, courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta.