DRU is a major retrospective of Tierra del Sol program artist Dru McKenzie, tracing more than 25 years of her singular, visionary practice across still life, portraiture, and tableaux, each pushed toward extremes of stylization. Drawing from sources as varied as National Geographic and fashion magazines, McKenzie's work is rendered in bold graphic lines and saturated planes of color, with forms floating within fields of vibrating marks and washes. Her practice carries echoes of Jean Dubuffet and Henri Matisse, while her signature (DRU, often repeated three times) functions as a pictograph, suggesting a primordial slippage between drawing and writing.
