Ewa Juszkiewicz: Recent Paintings is the first monograph of the artist’s work to be published in English. Juszkiewicz bases her oil-on-canvas paintings on traditional European portraits of women from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, replacing their subjects’ faces with lush arrangements of flowers and fruit, excessive layers of fabric, or bizarrely coiffed hairstyles. Her subversively surreal works deconstruct ideals of beauty and narrate a history of erasure that runs through the Western canon of female portraiture.

The book features more than thirty paintings made by Juszkiewicz between 2019 through 2024 with accompanying details that showcase her meticulous technique and startling imagery as well as installation photographs of the works in exhibition contexts. Katy Hessel contributes an essay on Juszkiewicz’s feminist interrogation of traditional European culture and Lisa Small writes about her paintings in relation to histories of portraits, the still life, and women’s self-fashioning. A conversation between the artist and Jennifer Higgie discusses the development and meanings of her work.