Lisa Yuskavage

Faye Hirsch. Interview with the artist by Chuck Close.
Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA
1996

Lisa Yuskavage's work is about desire: a disturbing melange of portraits of babylike women residing in a world of lush, saturated colors that bely a dark psychological space just this side of the fetishistic. On lurid grounds of greens, pinks, purples, and aquas her figures often emerge apparitionally-flesh, clothing, and hair delineated through shadows and light in a disconcerting blurring of boundaries. With striking intensity, these childlike women both attract and repel with their frank and seductive psychosexual power.

Referenced Exhibition

Lisa Yuskavage
Christopher Grimes Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
January 6 – February 17, 1996

Lisa Yuskavage
Christopher Grimes Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
June 4 – July 2, 1994

Referenced Works