In June 2024, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, acquired five works of Victoria Yau's for its permanent collection. This fall, three of those paintings will be featured in the museum's upcoming exhibition: Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding.
The exhibition is centered on Helen Frankenthaler's printmaking practice, described as "chance encounters between pigment and surface–unintentional effects that emphasize the agency and alchemy of materials," highlighting the unpredictability and experimentation inherent to her process. Included in this show are lithographs, drawings, and watercolors by Frankenthaler herself, in addition to works by friends and colleagues Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, and Robert Motherwell.
With her paintings shown in the company of modernist masters, Victoria Yau's landmark contributions to material experimentation take their rightful place in the canon.
