Lisa Yuskavage

Happy Birthday, Lisa Yuskavage!

Posted 05.16.2012

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Today is the birthday of Lisa Yuskavage, whose signature curvy-kitsch ladies have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. The Pennsylvania-...

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Fantasy, Power And The American Dream

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Fragonard, Laura Krifka Cb1, CB1 Gallery, Laura Krifka First Blush, Romance, American Dream, Lisa Yuskavage, Wizard of Oz, Rococo, Fabio, Delacriox, Female Artists, Laura Krifka, Power, Fantasy, Arts News

Laura Krifka works in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and photography to create fantasies that indulge our desires for power and a stable ...

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PHOTOS: Lisa Yuskavage's Playground Of Earthly Delights

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

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Lisa Yuskavage's latest paintings feature masterfully rendered portrayals of feminine playgrounds both overblown and ambiguous, sugary sweet and vulga...

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Where Do Important Artists Come From?

David Galenson | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Damien Hirst, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Young British Artists, Lisa Yuskavage, Royal College of Art, Richard Serra, Yale School of Art, Chuck Close, John Currin, Goldsmiths College, Matthew Barney, Arts News
David Galenson

Simply put, important new artists are most likely to emerge in the same cities where important artists have emerged in the recent past. And even more narrowly, in recent decades important new artists have been most likely to emerge from the same academic institutions that have produced important artists in the past.

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Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage

G. Roger Denson | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Feminist Art, Homosocial, Gender Codes, Sharon Lockhart, Patriarchy, Female Homosocial, XX Chromosocial, Lisa Yuskavage, Mother-Daughter, Sexual Codes, Feminist Photography, Vanessa Beecroft, Carrie Mae Weems, Lesbians, Lesbian Families, Catherine Opie, Matriarchy, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

2011-08-23-Screenshot20110823at7.07.12PM.jpg Art long outlives the institutions and ideologies it is made to service.

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Anne Harris: "They Start With Me..."

John Seed | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Self-Portraits, Female Artists, Alexandre Gallery, Painting, Julie Heffernan, Lisa Yuskavage, Anne Harris, Chicago, Home News
John Seed

Artist Anne Harris has built her reputation as a painter of women who transfix their viewers with projections of uncomfortable and uncanny emotional s...

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XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Deepa Mehta, Kiki Smith, Shahzia Sikander, Lesbian, Cindy Sherman, Arts, Jenny Saville, Homosocial-Divide, Deborah Kass, Nancy Spero, Lisa Yuskavage, Marina Abramovic, Laila Essaydi, Janine Antoni, Sherrie Levine, Nan Goldin, Yvonne Rainer, Rape, Shirin Neshat, Angela Ellsworth, Eve Sussman, Catherine Opie, Gender, Ana Mendieta, Collier Schorr, Sue Williams, Sharon Lockhart, XX Chromosocial, Mariko Mori, Sarah Charlesworth, Vanessa Beecroft, Carrie Mae Weems, Women Who Write Mad Men, Lorna Simpson, Claudia Hart, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kara Walker, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

The rise of feminism corresponds roughly with the expansion of the artworld to include women's production. This is a history that began predominantly in impelling women's art as an expression of the identification of women apart from men.

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HuffPost Arts Week 2: It's Alive

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Seed, Work of Art, James Scarborough, Peter Frank, Kimberly Brooks, Patricia Zohn, Lisa Yuskavage., Huffington Post Arts, Arts News
Kimberly Brooks

I ask you, is it not refreshing to go to the Huffington Post, skip along the tabs and and go from seeing celebrities, politicians, oil spills, stock photography, the Kardashians and Sarah Palin to Art?

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Lisa Yuskavage: The Journey of an Art Star by Patricia Zohn

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Zohn

2010-06-25-outsidepull.jpg Yuskavage says -- using the lexicon of sex to describe her process -- "I can't paint as a bottom. I have to paint as a top."

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Culture Zohn: Elizabeth Peyton Lets People In

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Peyton, Art, Portraits, The New Museum, Michael Jackson, Art Basel, Frida Kahlo, Marie Antoinette, Lisa Yuskavage, Gavin Brown, Picasso, David Hockney, Napoleon, John Currin, Georgia O'Keeffe, King Ludwig, Saana, Delacroix, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2008-10-14-PULL.jpg Juxtaposed with the highly colored rock stars and fashionistas, the portraits are notable for the virtuosity and the way they make their subjects look utterly contemporary.

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