This is Yuskavage's great gift, turning upside down our settled ways of thinking and seeing and, with ease, transforming the vulgar and ridiculous into the sublime.
Lisa Yuskavage's "The Brood" at the Rose Art Museum is her first US museum solo in more than 15 years, touches on her career's high points.
12 Sep — 13 Dec 2015 at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, United States
Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings, in which seemingly ignoble subjects are depicted with classic, historical techniques. Yuskavage was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and studied abroad during her third year through the Tyler School of Art’s program in Rome, before obtaining her BFA in 1984. Yuskavage received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986.
The New Yorker has turned old-master techniques on their head here by applying them to the trashy and kitsch
Yuskavage's paintings of nude women and partially clothed girls have raised eyebrows for their perceived carnality. But her subjects never asked you to stare at them.
Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings, in which seemingly ignoble subjects are depicted with classic, historical techniques. Yuskavage was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and studied abroad during her third year through the Tyler School of Art’s program in Rome, before obtaining her BFA in 1984. Yuskavage received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986.
Yuskavage says -- using the lexicon of sex to describe her process -- "I can't paint as a bottom. I have to paint as a top."
Lisa Yuskavage @ David Zwirner
Lisa Yuskavage
Margaret McCann reviews a recent exhibition of paintings by artist Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings, in which seemingly ignoble subjects are depicted with classic, historical techniques. Yuskavage was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and studied abroad during her third year through the Tyler School of Art’s program in Rome, before obtaining her BFA in 1984. Yuskavage received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986.
Accompanying a major exhibition, this stunning survey and important monograph highlights more than two decades worth of Lisa Yuskavage s brilliant and controversial paintings. Internationally acclaimed American painter Lisa Yuskavage is known for her seductive yet unsettling work, in which cartoony, vulgar, angelic young nymphs are cast within fantastical landscapes or theatrical interiors. In this dazzling monograph she presents the confrontational imagery, luscious paint, and technical virtuosity that are her signature, blurring the boundaries between high art s classic female nudes and their naughty, soft-porn counterparts. This comprehensive new volume offers a rich overview of the artist s work with interpretive essays by leading art historians and an interview with the artist. This will be the definitive book on this important artist.
18 April - 15 June 2013 at Greengrassi Gallery, London.
Margaret McCann reviews a recent exhibition of paintings by artist Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
Matisse, among other Old Masters, gets the full Yuskavage treatment in her show of 14 new paintings at Zwirner, displayed in two rooms.
This New York artist's hyper-sexualised pin-up girls, painted with the sophistication of Renaissance masters, are both funny and freaky
Los paradójicos desnudos figurativos de Lisa Yuskavage
| Author: NA | Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co. | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2020 | Number of Pages: 144 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1941366279 | ISBN-13: 9781941366271
Viewing Lisa Yuskavage’s painted world is a confusing experience. We are presented with all manner of possible gazings, from the teasing liquidities of girl on girl, to the delicate performance of looking and touching that constitutes the act of masturbation. Hers is a woman’s world (more accurately, a girl’s world), where chronology hasn’t caught up to groinology. And while the upper bodies of her females don’t match the extravagant proportions of the women in the art of her friend, John Currin, there is still a noticeable degree of exaggeration in her paintings. She is capable of pushing certain portions of the body beyond conventional depiction. “I have an interest in full-throttle, full-on engagement,” she says. “I like the idea of overwhelming.”
