Artists

Marisol

Press release

The first retrospective devoted to the drawings of Marisol Escobar (Paris, 1930 – New York, 2016) brings together over one hundred works created from the 1950s until her death. Presented alongside sculptures that extend her drawing practice into three dimensions, archival materials, and several Andy Warhol films in which she appeared, the works (almost entirely drawn from the collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum) highlight drawing as the thread running through her career: the medium through which she expressed global concerns, personal unease, and imaginative fictions. The title refers to a question posed by gallerist Leo Castelli in the late 1950s—“How can you leave when things are just beginning?”—echoing the artist’s decision to step away from the art world at key moments that marked profound transformations in her work. Curator Laura Vallés Vílchez Co-produced by MAC/CCB and Fundación Botín, Santander, in collaboration with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum