The museum periodically places living artists in direct dialogue with this dynamic salon-style installation. In Frye Salon + Jonathan Lasker, a selection of large canvases by the contemporary American painter—subject of the concurrent exhibition Drawings and Studies—intermingle with the featured collection works. Known for his bold visual language of biomorphic forms and distinctive use of line, Lasker uses the familiar tools of representational painting—figure and ground, space and perspective—to destabilize the dividing line with abstraction. Situated among the works of Frye Salon, his vibrant, evocatively titled compositions open unexpected conversations across time, style, and painterly intent.