Deborah Kass in the Studio. Courtesy of Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
"I had this concept of doing an ode to the great Louises. “Sing out Louise,” “A Woman Has No Place,” and from Louise Nevelson, “I’d Be Dead Without My Anger.” And I always saw those in a separate room, called the Louise Suite. Anyway, the neon made sense—it just did." -- Terry Myers in The Brooklyn Rail, 2010.
Deborah Kass (American, b.1952) is a Texas-born artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history, and identity. Kass received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program and the Art Students League of New York. She is a senior critic in Yale University’s painting MFA program.
Most recently, her work was included in: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Solo exhibitions have included Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective, at the Andy Warhol Museum, and My Elvis +, at Kasmin in New York. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and the Fogg Museum in Boston, as well as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.