Yvette Drury Dubinsky is known for her innovative combinations of drawing, print, alternative photography, and found objects. There's a defiance to her print investigations, as she's concerned with leaving a process alone, so she pushes its limits. "I liked the fact that I am not controlling everything, Drury Dubinsky says of the mechanical aspect of printmaking. The tension between chaos and order, density and negative space, expectation and surprise are palpable in her art. Her approach is playful and experimental, yet bold and self-assured. “Rejection didn't bother me as much,” she says. She likes trying different forms of printmaking, collages, cyanotypes, watercolor, digital photography - and twisting the forms of figures and objects until they resemble things other than themselves.
Spatial structure captivates Drury Dubinsky, and everywhere you look in her art, there are usually maps. l Like to see where I am; she says. "Visually, they're a linear mark. Mark-making is important to me. And the sharpness and specificity of maps add something essential.” "I use very wet media, soupy things,”. she says, and then she'll look at a piece and “I think it needs an anchor. Sometimes, the written word or a line on the map balances it for me."
Yvette Drury Dubinsky (b. Chicago) lives and works between St. Louis, MO, and Truro, MA. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, before attending Washington University in St. Louis (now the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts), where she received a B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. In 2006 she had a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris, where she also had a solo exhibition. Since 1989 she has had more than 20 solo exhibitions and has been a part of many groups shows in New York, Chicago, Provincetown and Wellfleet, MA, St. Louis, Tucson, San Francisco, and Norway. Dubinsky’s work can be found in many public and private collections including the St. Louis Art Museum, The Margaret Harwell Art Museum, The Buhl Collection, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. She has been a part of the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. State Department.
