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The Inexorable Pull of Lisa Yuskavage’s Paintings

Avatar photo by Robert Becker October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

This is Yuskavage’s great gift, turning upside down our settled ways of thinking and seeing and, with ease, transforming the vulgar and ridiculous into the sublime.

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The Trouble with Renoir’s Nudes

by David Carrier August 3, 2019August 2, 2019

Renoir: The Body, The Senses makes some attempts, vain in my opinion, to present Renoir as a politically progressive artist, even a closet feminist.

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A Painter Trades Sex for Romance

by Dennis Kardon December 9, 2018December 7, 2018

Romantic love for Lisa Yuskavage is something we can deride as unrealistic, yet its sweet, naïve simplicity reminds us of a youthful ideal.

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A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk February 3, 2018February 4, 2018

I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.

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Looking Beyond the Obvious in Lisa Yuskavage’s Mighty Paintings

by Robert Moeller October 30, 2015November 3, 2015

WALTHAM, Mass. — At root, Lisa Yuskavage is a portraitist. And while detractors still summon up the provocations in her work, focusing on the perkily carved breasts and openly displayed genitalia, those aspects are only a single, thin veneer atop the subjects she paints.

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Two Artists, One Winner: Lisa Yuskavage and Nicola Tyson

by Brendan S. Carroll November 2, 2011November 8, 2011

Lisa Yuskavage and Nicola Tyson have solo shows three blocks from another in Manhattan’s Chelsea art-borhood. Both focus on the appearance of the figure and how it responds to or appears in certain situations, both real and imagined. The results could not be more different.

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Required Reading

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 16, 2011

This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.

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