“Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’s Painting and Drawing: A Dialogue” at the Menil Drawing Institute

Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1990. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 39 1/4 x 28 1/8 in. (99.7 x 71.4 cm). 
The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of David Whitney. © 2018 Jasper Johns / VAGA, New York, NY.
Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1990. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 39 1/4 x 28 1/8 in. (99.7 x 71.4 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Bequest of David Whitney. © 2018 Jasper Johns / VAGA, New York, NY.

Roberta Bernstein examined selected works from The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns at the Menil Drawing Institute and discussed how they engage with related paintings. Bernstein also illustrated how Johns’s art blurs the boundaries between painting and drawing and presents factors important to decisions about where certain works reside vis-à-vis recently published Jasper Johns catalogue raisonné.

Menil Collection, Houston
Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’s Painting and Drawing: A Dialogue
Wednesday, January 23rd
7–8 PM

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