Ursula von Rydingsvard was invited to collaborate with the Neiman Center in 2024 to produce a set of lithographs based on her dedicated and sustained drawing practice. Her organic images, meticulously rendered in shades of graphite are at once playful and uncanny, seeming to evolve from the automatic drawing techniques employed by the Surrealists. Replete with intimate details and innovative marks, they reward close looking. Unlike her widely exhibited sculptures, von Rydingsvard’s drawings have, until recently, remained a largely private endeavor. The six lithographs made at the Neiman Center are graphic iterations of her pencil drawings while the carved cedar planks on the portfolio’s cover are a nod to her sculptures’ surfaces.

Von Rydingsvard’s work is represented in several museum collections in the United States including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri; Storm King Art Center, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her permanent commissioned sculptures are on view in multiple public locations including the San Francisco International Airport, California; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Princeton University, New Jersey; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Bloomberg Corporation, New York; and Barclays Center, New York among others. Von Rydingsvard has had numerous national and international exhibitions, most recently at the Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko; Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw, and National Museum in Krakow; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK.

Learn more about this artist:
Galerie Lelong
Museum of Modern Art