Jessie Makinson

Lyles & King is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of London-based artist Jessie Makinson (b. 1985), Dangerous Pleasing.

Teasing threads from art history and literature, Jessie Makinson readdresses a patriarchal past from a female perspective. Plucking themes and narratives from historical precedent, she creates a bold new context for the motifs she selects. Vivid colors describe tense, erotic scenes in which women are dangerous active participants, not passive permission givers. Makinson’s characters practice rituals, they embrace, plot and conspire. They hold sexual power and disrupt expectations, inhabiting a universe that surprises, delights and tests its audience.

Jessie Makinson (b.1985, London) has had recent solo exhibitions at Fabian Lang, Zürich and Galería OMR, Mexico City. Upcoming exhibitions include I See You at Victoria Miro, London and Makinson's first institutional exhibition, Der abscheuliche kuss, curated by Marie-Charlotte Carrier at Kunstverein Dresden.