God Save the Queen: Damien Hirst & Sarah Lucas : Edward Ressle Gallery, New York, NY

Edward Ressle is delighted to present God Save the Queen, featuring British artists Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. On view from October 7th through December 15th, 2017, this marks the first time these legendary Young British Artists are paired together in a two-person exhibition. Here, Lucas’ compulsive and unabashed creations perfectly complement the monumental extremes and mystifying limits of Hirst’s.

God Save the Queen illustrates Hirst and Lucas’ iconoclastic approaches to art and alternative ways of adopting medium and metaphor. These artists have highly influenced each other’s work since their early days in the Fine Arts Program at Goldsmiths, University of London as the founding members of the YBA. Upending the art world, the YBA movement challenged the norms of art-making and further revitalized the UK art scene with the revolutionary ‘Freeze’ exhibit, curated by Hirst himself, putting not only the up-and- coming artists on the map, but Britain as well.