Throughout Guston’s career, his work captures a sense of restlessness and a willingness to change.
Note: This film includes reference to racism and imagery of racist violence and the Ku Klux Klan. Philip Guston thought hard about the artist’s responsibility to bear witness to “the brutality of the world.” Consistently changing and reinventing, he sought to make work that embodies life’s complexities, its beauty, absurdity, humor and suffering. In this short film, curators Michael Wellen and Michael Raymond, conservator Anna Cooper, and the artist’s daughter, Musa Mayer, recount the story of Guston’s life and career, as well as his restless urge to challenge himself creatively.
