About
Artist Statement
Continuously born of the interplay between solitary work in my studio, the push-pull of my personal life, and the ongoing turmoil of the outside world, my new work builds on earlier work and combines maps and silhouetted figures with abstract shapes created by flattening and printing boxes. Using painting, printmaking, alternative photography, and the inclusion of found materials, I incorporate earlier, never shown or salvaged work, and frames to reconstruct.
In my early work recycling boxes, I repurposed small cardboard boxes originally used to store medicines and art supplies. During the pandemic these came by mail, now I find them otherwise too. I flatten and then print and/or paint on them, so transform them into discrete two-dimensional objects. Later (2024 in New York), I began to push the use of boxes further by making them printing plates, layering their various shapes on paper to and each other to create complex monotypes. The resulting prints were brought together with the original boxes (first painted, printed and collaged on) to create large scale three dimensional (but just relief) installations, as well as smaller works. One of those installations was reconstructed in 2025 for a second version. The boxes in earlier work gestured toward their original use, as containers for supplies-medical and artistic- that sustain and individual life but recently, as they alchemize into sprawling assemblages and collages, they begin to resemble buildings and intersecting realities. The arrangement of the boxes and prints in version 1 of the large installation “DeConstruct” is deliberately chaotic. Intermingling with hand-welded metal shapes, the boxes appear to randomly come off the wall, reflecting a landscape that might have been bombed or destroyed by natural disasters. Also printed on the boxes and monotypes are maps from places hard hit, such as Aleppo, Kiev, and Gaza. Silhouetted figures drawn from newspaper articles and photographs of my family are inserted as well. In all the work, these figures travel, walk, as if on a journey to someplace new. Maps of sanctuary cities appear too, more hopeful. In Deconstruct the travelers survey the rubble, perhaps forced to flee homes now destroyed.
The boxes, once literal containers for supplies become metaphors for human refuge. Their forms reference current social problems: lack of affordable housing, the destruction of homes during wartime, and lack of institutional shelter for migrants. The reuse of containers seeks to reverse the accumulation of waste in our landfills, and by extension its effect on global warming. A wide variety of support structures sustain us as humans: the houses we live in, the families we nurture and the communities in which we stake claim. But these support structures are also vulnerable to illness and injury, or war and environmental or, as now, political change. Both “DeConstruct” installations ask: “What do we do when our systems of support fail? Reconstruct is a hopeful response to that
question: We use what we have and continue to move forward, or to make art, and make what we have work.
Bio
Yvette Drury Dubinsky has shown her work around the US, Europe, and Japan. Her art is in the collections of The Saint Louis Art Museum, The New York Public Library, The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, The Beineke Library at Yale University, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Nevada Art Museum, the Margaret Harwell Museum in Poplar Bluff, MO and The Federal Reserve Bank. Her large collaged alternative process photographs have been a part of the Art in Embassies Program of the United States State Department. She has had a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.
Dubinsky has had more than 30 solo exhibitions. Her work can be found at A.I.R. Gallery - New York, Bruno David Gallery - St. Louis, MO, and Farm Project Space - Wellfleet, MA.
Yvette Drury Dubinsky, based in Truro, MA, St. Louis, MO and New York, NY earned her MFA from the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds MA and AB degrees from Washington University as well.
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2027
Upcoming solo show at Farm Project Space, Wellfleet, MA
2026
TURBULENCES REVISITED curated by Robert Rindler, Wellfleet Adult Community Center, Wellfleet, MA
2025
RECONSTRUCT, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2024
constructDEconstruct, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2023
Traveling, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Catalog)2022
Searching for Peace, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Prints, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2021
Marking Persistence, Farm Project Space, Wellfleet, MA2020
Minor Things (two-person exhibition with Sue Post), Farm Project Space, Wellfleet, MA2019
Steamroller Collaborations (duo with Vicky Tomayko), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Steamroller Collaborations (duo with Vicky Tomayko), Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Catalog)2018
Here and Gone, Survey Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (Catalog2017
On The Move, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2016
On The Move, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2015
Tondos, Tornadoes and Torpedoes, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Reprise, Front Room, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Memory Library, (Participatory Performance with Shu Cao Mao and Joseph I. Steele), Spring Arts Festival, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA2014
Turbulences (Installation and Works on Paper), S.E.A. (Science, Environment Art) Space for the Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA2013
There and Gone (Installation and Works on paper), Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Catalog)2010
Harvests, Farm Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Harvests, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Pittsfield, MA2009
Dividing Time: New Work on Paper, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Catalog)2007
Cité des Arts: Mixed Media work and video, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2006
Formes Biologiques, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France2005
Alternatives, Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Antioxidants and Alternatives, COA Gallery, Truro, MA2003
Cuba, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO2001
Antioxidant Vegetables & Fruits, Canyon Ranch, Tucson, AZ2000
Antioxidant Images--Works on Paper, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., St. Louis, MO1999
Works On/Of Paper, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO1994
Contacts, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Work, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St.. Louis, MO1992
Tactile Exteriors, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO1991
Surfaces, Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO1989
Prints, Meramec Theater Gallery, St. Louis, MO -
2026
Group show at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming September)
Moving Van, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Overview, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Untitled, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2023
Paper Work, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Clones, Copies, Couples curated by Jacob Hughes, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Light Art Exhibition 9 (with A.I.R.), Iga, Japan
Conflict Resolution, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Black Light, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2022
Lokal_30 Exhibition (with A.I.R.), Warsaw, Poland
Light Art Exhibition 8 (with A.I.R.), Iga, Japan
Cloud Dreamscape (with A.I.R.), Putney Vermont Library, Putney, VT
Among Friends, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Works on Paper, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Bilingual, Abstract and Figurative, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2021
23°47', 2°27', 2°51', A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Marking Lives Covid 19, Broad Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Carter Burden Gallery, New York (Juror Nancy Azara)
Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA2020
Printers and Presses, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT
Recent Work (Pandemic Drawings), Farm Project Space, Wellfleet, MA
Collusions, Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet, MA
Making Waves: Artists Speak Out, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
SYMPOIESIS with Victoria Manganello, (s)(o)(f)(t) (w)(i)(n)(d)(o)(w)(s), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Public Swim & A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Suffrage 100, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT2019
Small Worlds, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Eleven x Seventeen: Twenty Paper Works, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NADA House, Governors Island, New York, NY
Big Fat Flower Show, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Big Fat Flower Show, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA2018
NADA Miami with A.I.R. Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
The Turnage, Pimlico Art Center, Washington, DC
RE-enter, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA2017
Women on the Line, Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden
OVERVIEW_2017, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Who Cares?, A.I.R. Gallery, Governors Island, NY2016
Cooperative Consciousness, Collateral exhibition, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Gallery OED Compound, Kerala, India
Monoprint Project/Artists’ Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Burst of Memory, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Editions / Artists’ Book Fair (E/AB FAIR), New York, NY
Printmaking in St. Louis Now, Curated by Olivia Las Gonzales, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Razzle Dazzle, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2015
Editions / Artists’ Book Fair (E/AB Fair), New York, NY
And/OR, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
CENTRAL BOOKING, New York, NY
UNFRAMED, New York Artists’ Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Artists’ Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
AIR ReFreshed, A.I.R. Gallery Traveling Exhibition: Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
ADORE, San Fransisco, CA; Princeton University, The Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton, NJ; Washington University, Central Library, St. Louis, MO
Wish you were here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2014
Off on a Tangent, Unique Techniques in Print On and Off the Wall, Washington Arts Center, Washington, CT
OVERVIEW_2014, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
If These Walls, A.I.R. Gallery Project, 5B Nolan Park, Governors Island, NY
Wet Paint, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Violet with the Emperor Scorpion, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Shoots: Contemporary Street Photographers from St. Louis, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, MO2013
Spring Competition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Artists Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA2012
Group Exhibition, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA
Monoprint Project and Artists Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Juried Members Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Blue, White, Red, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2011
W.O.P. I, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Spring Arts Competition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Green (Robert Rindler’s Recycling Vernacular), Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
Juried Members Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Monoprint Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA2010
Gallery Ehva, Provincetown MA
Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO
Monoprint Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA2009
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Monoprint Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA2008
Four Aces, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Spring Arts Competition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA2007
METRO, Looped DVD projection, 3-minute video. Music composed by Axel Singer, Bruno David Gallery (New Media Room), St. Louis, MO
Monoprint Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Juried Members Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA2006
Juried Members Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Monoprint Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2005
Monoprint Project, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO2004
Group Photographic Show, Photo District Gallery, New York, NY
Women Only, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Twenty (Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition), Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Earth, Landscape and The Pamet, Ethan Cohen/Arthaus, Truro, MA
Scope Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida (with Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY)2003
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Regarding Objects, The Sheldon Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Regarding Objects, Innsbrook Conference Center, Innsbrook, MO2002
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
New Traditions in Printmaking, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO2001
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Sun Works, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Prints, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
The People Project, St. Louis, MO2000
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Of Self and World, Innsbrook Estates, curated by Olivia Las Gonzales, Innsbrook, MO
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Art, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, St. Louis, MO1999
Competition Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, MO1998
Gallery 551, San Francisco, CA
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA1997
St. Louis, The City Series, Cedar Rapids Art Museum, Cedar Rapids, IA
Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA1996
NAWBO Awards Exhibition, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Sharing Images, Maryville University, St. Louis, MO1995
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
The Harbor, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Absolutely Abstract, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO1994
The Box (From Duchamp to Horn), Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Group Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
New Work by Gallery Artists, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Chicago International Art Forms Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Gallery Artists Group Exhibition, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL1993
A Compassionate Response to AIDS, The Design Center, St. Louis, MO
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Art St. Louis XI, St. Louis, MO
Summer Salon, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
US - Norway Exchange Exhibition, Galleri Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway
510 Compton Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
LAPS 93, Los Angeles, CA
Crossroads Invitational Art Festival, St. Louis, MO1992
The Human Form, Metropolitan Square Building, St. Louis, MO
Picture This, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Seventh Annual Harwell Mail-In Show, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO1991
Art St. Louis VII, St. Louis, MO
ACLU Biennial Exhibition, Randall Gallery, St. Louis, MO1990
The Indomitable Spirit, St. Louis Exhibition, The Greenbery Gallery, St. Louis, MO
National Exposures 90, Winston-Salem, NC
Art St. Louis VI, St. Louis, MO
Portrait Exhibition, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO
Thesis Exhibition, Washington University School of Art, WU Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO
Photography Exhibition, St. Louis, Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO
Intimate Translations, The Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
National Aperture 4, Associated Artists, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC1988
Prints and Drawings Exhibition, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO
Contemporary Women Artists of St. Louis VI, Bixby Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Art St. Louis IV, Gateway 1, St. Louis, MO -
MFA, Sam Fox School, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
The Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, Maine
Printmaking: Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre, Florence, Italy
MA, Washington University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Sociology), St. Louis, MO
BA, Cum Laude, Washington University, St. Louis, MO -
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Visiting Artist, University of Chicago, Midway Studios, Chicago, IL
University College, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Webster University, St. Louis, MO -
A.I.R. Fiftieth Anniversary Print Portfolio, A.I.R. Gallery and the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, 2023. Essay by Lucy R. Lippard.
Exhibition Catalog "Traveling" Bruno David Publications, 2023.
Exhibition Catalog “Steamroller Collaborations” Bruno David Publications, 2019. Essay by Karen Fish.
Director’s Choice Exhibition Catalog, “Here and Gone?” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 2018. Essays by Christine McCarthy and Lisa Melandri, PhD.
Editor, “Linda Skrainka Reflections: Close to Home”, St. Louis University Press, 2016.
Exhibition catalog, “There and Gone”, Bruno David Publications, 2013. Essay by Karen K. Butler, PhD.
Exhibition catalog, “Dividing Time”, Bruno David Publications, 2010. Essay by Peter Marcus.
Exhibition catalog, “Cité des Arts 2007”, Bruno David Publications, 2007. Essay by Harriet Stone, PhD.
Blog, “Yvette en France”, Residency at the Cité des Arts, Paris, France, 2007.
The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Editions I, II, and III, Christopher James.
Announcement Design, “Hand in Hand”, Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO.
Cover, “Ovations”, 1995-96 Programs for Edison Theatre, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Cover and Back, River Styx, #34 and #65 -
Outer/Under Cape, commission for the Provincetown Public Arts Foundation, Provincetown Pier, Provincetown, MA
Distinguished Alumni Award, Sam Fox School, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Distinguished Alumni Award, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, National Finalist Competition
National Association of Women Business Owners - St. Louis Honoree, Artists Choose Artists, Art St. Louis X
First Place Purchase Award, Margaret Harwell Art Museum Honor Award Art St. Louis VI -
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY airgallery.org
Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO brunodavidgallery.com
Farm Project Space, Wellfleet, MA farmprojectspace.org
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The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Beinecke Library, Yale University
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Nevada Art Museum, Center for Art and the Environment, Reno, NV
Cortex Innovation Center, St. Louis, MO
The Buhl Collection, New York, NY
Thompson Coburn Law Firm, St. Louis, MO
US Bank, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, MO
Elizabeth Millard, OR
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
The Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO
Westin Cupples Station Hotel, St. Louis, MO
Art In Embassies Program, The U.S. Dept. of State (temporary)
MacCarthy Construction Company
Barnes-Jewish Hospitals, St. Louis, MO -
2025
McFarland, JoAnne “Troubled Wonder”, Provincetown Arts Magazine (40th Anniversary Issue), 2025-26, p. 92
Storer, Abraham “Cleaning Up and Making Art”, Interview, Provincetown Independent, October 1, 2025
2019
Marks, Kerry “Yvette Drury Dubinsky and Vicky Tomayko”, Interview, HEC-TV2018
Karren, Howard “Yvette Drury Dubinsky pushes the printmaking envelope”, Provincetown Banner, May 3, 2018
Alvin, Rebecca “Moving Through the Layers”, Provincetown Magazine, April 11, 20182017
Marks, Kerry “From Syria and Uncharted Waters to Interior Design”, HEC-TV62016
Colucci, Emily. “Yvette Drury Dubinsky: On The Move, Nancy Morrow & Erin Wiersma: With/drawn and Yun Shin: Filtering”, ArtfCity.com, October 7, 2016
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Beall, Dickson. Video: “Traveling in Our Times”, St.Louisan.com2015
Dayal, Mira. “Yvette Drury Dubinsky on ‘Tondos, Tornadoes, Torpedoes’”. On Verge, June 12, 20152014
O'Shaughnessy, Tracey. “Printmaking Goes 'Off the Wall'”.
Waterbury Republican American, October 22, 2014
Shabbot, Laura. “Bridging Science and Art on Commercial Street”.
Provincetown Banner, September 12, 20142013
Duffy, Robert W. “Dubinsky’s ‘There and Gone’ offers glimpses of Syria before and during civil war”. St. Louis Beacon, May 22, 2013
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Cape Cod Voice, Provincetown Banner1994
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