Lisa Yuskavage

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.

Biography

Yuskavage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America. She attended the Tyler School of Art and received her MFA from Yale in 1986.

In the mid-1990s she participated in the group exhibitions "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; and "The Nude in Contemporary Art" (1999).

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

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

References

External links

* [http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=185 Art and Culture profile]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/art/9839,schjeldahl,800,13.html article] in "Village Voice"


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