“David Robilliard: Works 1984-1988”

A poet and an artist, Robilliard (1952–1988) was a fixture on the London art scene of the ’70s and ’80s, and had a close association with Gilbert and George, for whom he modeled. His own art featured simple, childlike line drawings of figures accompanied by sharp-witted texts that were, by turns, sardonic and plaintive. Both attitudinally and otherwise, his work had a significant impact on the YBAs. The works here are drawn from the four-year period before his death from AIDS.