Lisa Yuskavage / Claudia Gould, curator ; with essays by Katy Siegel and Marcia B. Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuskavage, Lisa, 1962-

Contributor:

Gould, Claudia.

Siegel, Katy.

Hall, Marcia B.

University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yuskavage, Lisa, 1962---Exhibitions.

Yuskavage, Lisa.

Yuskavage, Lisa, 1962---Interviews.

Yuskavage, Lisa, 1962-.

Genre:

Interviews.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

80 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Yuskavage

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Institute of Contemporary Art, [2000]

Summary:

One of the most exciting young American painters today, Lisa Yuskavage creates work that it is both unsettling and seductive. Populated by anatomically incorrect nymphets and other female anomalies, her work brings to mind a grotesque take on Keane kids or Vargas paintings, filtered through a skewed sense of self-portraiture. Her paintings invite comparisons both to John Currin and Rembrandt, presenting often disturbing subject matter in the frame of an enticing and physically stunning formal composition. Her figures lurk in shadowy yet colorful atmospheres ignited by expressionistic highlights, deftly moving between representation and abstraction. This monograph -- accompanying her first major solo exhibition and focusing on work from 1995 to the present -- is sure to add to the accolades she is currently receiving apropos of her work in the latest Whitney Biennial.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December 2, 2000-February 9, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).

ISBN:

0884540979

OCLC:

45662077