Lee Lozano: Drawings

Lee Lozano (1930and#150;1999) brought a potent voice to the 1960s New York art scene. Equipped with an extraordinary intellectual reach and demonstrating an unusually expressive and mature sexuality, Lozanoand#8217;s artand#151;which includes paintings, drawings, and conceptual worksand#151;is as fresh today as it was more than 40 years ago.

This handsome book presents selections of the artistand#8217;s early narrative and figurative drawings dating from 1960 to and#145;64. It is the first publication focusing on Lozanoand#8217;s drawings, and all of the featured works are previously unpublished. Her drawings can be exacting, demanding, and formally refined, such as her sexually charged depictions of tools, or freer gestural drawings using graphite with splashes of crayon color. Lozano also created text pieces that are part diary and part social chronicle. Conceived as a sort of artistand#8217;s sketchbook, the publication is completed by selections from the artistand#8217;s own diaries, which reveal her incredible wit, anger, intelligence, and struggles.

Lee Lozano: Drawings leaves no doubt of how prescient her work has proven to be and why she is an artist who is attracting a great deal of attention today.

Barry Rosen and Jaap van Liere are curatorial consultants in New York City.