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Known for. Painting. Lisa Yuskavage ( / jəˈskævɪdʒ / yə-SKAV-ij; [2] born 1962) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings that challenge conventional understandings of the genre. [3]

A Painter Who Wants Art to Shock With a new exhibition, Lisa Yuskavage demonstrates her mastery of her medium and her unique talent for upending its conventions. The artist Lisa Yuskavage in...

The Legacy of Lisa Yuskavage. Yuskavage is part of a generation of conceptual, figurative painters that emerged in the 1990s. She is often compared with other so called "bad girl" painters who explore transgressive territory related to the human body including Jenny Saville, Cecily Brown, and Marlene Dumas. Infused into Yuskavage's paintings is ...

For more than thirty years, Lisa Yuskavage's (b. 1962) highly original approach to figurative painting has challenged conventional understandings of the genre. Her simultaneously bold, eccentric, exhibitionist, and introspective characters assume dual roles of subject and object, complicati ...

One of the most original and influential artists of the past three decades, Lisa Yuskavage (b. 1962) creates works that affirm the singularity of the medium of painting while challenging conventional understandings of genres and viewership. At once exhibitionist and introspective, her rich cast of characters and their varied attributes are ...