Lisa Yuskavage

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Lisa Yuskavage (born 16 May 1962) is a contemporary American figurative painter known for her overtly sexualized representations of the painted female nude.

[edit] Biography

Yuskavage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America.

Yuskavage attended the Tyler School of Art and received her MFA from Yale in 1986.

Yuskavage came to prominence in the mid-1990s 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)

Yuskavage's work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [1]

Yuskavage is currently represented by David Zwirner, New York, and greengrassi, London.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Lisa Yuskavage: Critiquing Prurient Sexuality, or Disingenuously Peddling a Soft-Porn Aesthetic?" in The Washington Post, April 22, 2007. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042000406.html.


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