Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage
Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner Gallery, 2011
Born (1962-05-16) May 16, 1962
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Education Tyler School of Art
Yale School of Art
Known for Painting

Lisa Yuskavage (LĒS-ə yus-KĀ-vij) 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.[1]

Education

Yuskavage was born in 1961 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.[2]

Work

Since the early 1990s, Yuskavage has been associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting.[3] Of the artist’s paintings, critic Roberta Smith has written: "The combination of mixed subliminal messages, deliciously artificial color and forthright sexuality is characteristic of Ms. Yuskavage's work, as is the journey from high to low to lower culture within a relatively seamless whole."[4]

Yuskavage’s oeuvre is characterized by her ongoing engagement with the history of painting, and in particular the genre of the nude.[1] Her paintings also encompass landscape and still life genres, with all three often appear within a single work. Yuskavage’s unique use of color is imbedded in Renaissance techniques as well as Color Field painting, and she cites diverse inspirations, including Italian painter Giovanni Bellini, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and French painter Edgar Degas.[5]

Theoretically, her paintings are associated with psychologically driven theories of viewing, such as that of the gaze.[6] However, the complexities inherent in her paintings deny singular interpretation; as curator and critic Christian Viveros-Fauné explains: "Yuskavage’s oeuvre... succeeds exactly to the degree that it refuses to be pinned down to any one of its many conflicted meanings. 'I only load the gun', [Yuskavage] has been known to say to those who insist on viewing a painting as an explanation."[6]

She had a New York exhibit sell out before it opened, and one of her paintings sold at auction for more than $1 million.[7]

In September 2015, Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood opened at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. This major solo exhibition presented the artist’s work spanning 25 years.[8] Additionally, Yuskavage is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new online series, The Artist Project, launched in March 2015, in which she discusses Édouard Vuillard’s The Green Interior (1891).[9]

Lisa Yuskavage is represented by David Zwirner (New York) and by Greengrassi (London).[8] She has had four solo exhibitions at David Zwirner and six solo presentations at Greengrassi.[10]

Yuskavage's work Half-Family[11] was featured in Season 2, Episode 4 ("Lynch Pin") of the Emmy-nominated Showtime series, The L Word.

Her work is also mentioned in the novel China Rich Girlfriend of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan.[12]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Collections

Museum collections which hold works by the artist include Art Institute of Chicago; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.[13]

Awards

Yuskavage has been the recipient of honors and awards that include the Tiffany Foundation Grant (1996); the Founder's Day Certificate of Honor, Tyler School of the Arts, Philadelphia (2000); and the Temple University Gallery of Success Award, Temple University, Philadelphia (2005).[14]

Publications

  • Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood, Paintings 1991-2015. Texts by Christopher Bedford, Suzanne Hudson, Catherine Lord, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Katy Siegel. Published by Skira Rizzoli, New York, 2015. ISBN 9780847846481
  • Lisa Yuskavage. Published by David Zwirner, New York, 2006. ISBN 0976913658
  • Lisa Yuskavage. Texts by Tobias Ostrander and Christian Viveros-Fauné. Published by Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2006. ISBN 9789685979146
  • Lisa Yuskavage. Text by Tamara Jenkins. Published by Abrams Books, New York, 2004. ISBN 9780810949577
  • Lisa Yuskavage. Texts by Claudia Gould, Marcia B. Hall, and Katy Siegel. Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1999. ISBN 0884540979
  • Lisa Yuskavage. Texts by Chuck Close and Faye Hirsch. Published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California, 1996. ISBN 9780964642652

References

  1. 1 2 Marcia B. Hall, "Lisa Yuskavage's Painterly Paradoxes." Lisa Yuskavage (Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
  2. ↑ "Interview: Chuck Close Talks with Lisa Yuskavage." Christopher Grimes Gallery, 1996
  3. ↑ Louise Sørensen, "Lisa Yuskavage." David Zwirner, 2015
  4. ↑ Roberta Smith, "A Painter Who Loads the Gun and Lets the Viewer Fire It." The New York Times, January 12, 2001
  5. ↑ Katy Siegel, "Blonde Ambition." Artforum, May 2000
  6. 1 2 Christian Viveros-Fauné, "Cursed Beauty: The Painting of Lisa Yuskavage and the Goosing of the Great Tradition." Lisa Yuskavage (Museuo Tamayo, 2006)
  7. ↑ Keller, Cathryn (2007-04-22). "Lisa Yuskavage: Critiquing Prurient Sexuality, or Disingenuously Peddling a Soft-Porn Aesthetic?". The Washington Post. Washington DC: WPC. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Lisa Yuskavage." David Zwirner
  9. ↑ "Lisa Yuskavage on Édouard Vuillard’s The Green Interior." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015
  10. ↑ "Lisa Yuskavage." greengrassi
  11. ↑ "Half Family" by Lisa Yuskavage
  12. ↑ China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan, p 124
  13. 1 2 "Lisa Yuskavage: CV." David Zwirner, 2015
  14. ↑ "Biography: Lisa Yuskavage." Artnet, 2014
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