Border Crossings Magazine, Volume 26, Number 3
PAINT – Issue 103 – August 2007
Interview with Lisa Yuskavage by Robert Enright
Publisher: Border Crossings
Artists: Lisa Yuskavage
Contributors: Robert Enright
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: YUSLI2007
Status: Out Of Print
Lisa Yuskavage
Lisa Yuskavage’s works are characterized by an ongoing engagement with the history of painting. Her oeuvre bears witness to a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting and takes its point of departure in part in the immediacy and tawdriness of contemporary life spurred by the mass media and the psycho-social realm of the individual. Over the past two decades, she has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors. They appear to occupy their own realm while narcissistically contemplating themselves and their bodies. Rich, atmospheric skies frequently augment the psychologically charged mood, further adding to the impression of theatricality and creative possibility.