Long-established New York painters Robert Yasuda and Judith Murray, a couple for more than fifty years, show their work side by side for the first time in Duo, their Singapore debut.

Murray works primarily in oil on linen canvases, sculpting paint into lush, exuberant, abstract compositions in combinations of red, yellow, black and white. Yasuda, likewise, produces resoundingly abstract works, but in a quieter, more minimal way, applying acrylic polymer on fabric layered on sensuously carved wood panels.

Judith Murray’s work is in the collections of the United States Embassy in Mumbai; the royal family of Abu Dhabi; the National Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; National Academy Museum, New York; The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York; The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii; and the New York Public Library.

Robert Yasuda’s works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the New York Public Library; the Bass Museum, Miami, Florida; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.

A catalogue accompanies Duo. It includes an introduction and interview by the legendary American curator Alanna Heiss, founder of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1).