Lisa Yuskavage

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Lisa Yuskavage (Born May 16, 1962 in Philadelphia) is a contemporary American figurative painter. She is a controversial painter with loaded subject matter that has been referred to as "outrageous quasi-pornographic sirens" and "anatomically impossible bimbos" as they mock the male desires of male fantasy.

Lisa Yuskavage received her MFA from Yale in 1986 but came to prominence in the mid-nineties in a series of seminal museum shows "Figure as Fiction" (1993) Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; "My Little Pretty" (1997) Museum of contemporary Art, Chicago; "Presumed Innocence" (1997) "Pop Surrealism" (1998) Aldrich Museum; "The Nude in Contemporary Art" (1999).

United States This American painter article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../l/i/s/Lisa_Yuskavage_3e24.html"