80. LISA
YUSKAVAGE
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The Mound, 2011
Oil on linen 84 x 72 inches (213.4 x 182.9 cm) |
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Afternoon Feeding, 2011
Oil on linen (218.4 x 180.3 cm) |
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Hippies, 2013
Oil on linen (208.9 x 168.9 cm) |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1962 in Philadelphia ( USA)
Nowadays:
Lives and Works in New York city
Studies:
Yuskavage
received her B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in 1984
and her M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art in 1986. Since 2005, the
artist's work has been represented by David Zwirner. In 2006, two solo
exhibitions were concurrently presented at David Zwirner and Zwirner &
Wirth, New York, followed by presentations at the gallery in 2009 and 2011.
Marking her fourth gallery solo show was an exhibition of new works at David
Zwirner, New York, on view April 23 to June 13, 2015.
Themes and
style:
Yuskavage’s
oeuvre is characterized by her ongoing engagement with the history of painting,
and in particular the genre of the nude, which for centuries was shrouded as
religious subject matter. Yet her paintings also encompass landscape and still
life genres, and all three often appear within a single work. Yuskavage’s unique
use of color is imbedded in Renaissance techniques as well Color Field
painting, and she cites diverse inspirations, including Italian painter
Giovanni Bellini, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and French painter Edgar
Degas.
Techniques:
Her work
is developed in paintings ( oil on canvas).
Solo Exhibitions
2015 The Brood, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, Massachusetts [itinerary:
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis] [catalogue]
Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, New York
2013 Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London
2011 Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, New York
Lisa Yuskavage, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
[organized as part of the Dublin
Contemporary 2011: Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis, Change
& The Office of NonCompliance]
2010 Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London
2009 Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, New York
2007 Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London
2006 Lisa Yuskavage, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
City [catalogue]
New Work, David Zwirner, New York, concurrent with New Work,
Zwirner & Wirth, New York
[catalogue]
2004 Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London
2003 Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2002 Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi at The Galleries Show, Royal
Academy of Arts, London
2001 Lisa Yuskavage, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Watercolors, Studio Guenzani, Milan
2000 Lisa Yuskavage, Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
[catalogue]
1999 Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London
1998 Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
1997 Lisa Yuskavage, Studio Guenzani, Milan
1996 Lisa Yuskavage, Boesky & Callery, New York
Lisa Yuskavage, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica,
California [catalogue]
1994 Lisa Yuskavage, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa
Monica, California
Lisa Yuskavage, Luhring Augustine, New York
Watercolors, Elizabeth Koury, New York
1993 Lisa Yuskavage, Elizabeth Koury, New York
Lisa Yuskavage, Studio Guenzani, Milan
1990 Lisa Yuskavage, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 The Art of Our Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, Mana
Contemporary, New Jersey and
School of Visual Arts’ Chelsea Gallery, New York [two-part
exhibition]
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection,
Rubell Family Collection,
Miami [catalogue]
Print Up Ladies, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Studio Guenzani, Milano 1986-2015: Molto-Tutto, Studio
Guenzani, Milan
True Monotypes, International Print Center New York
UNREALISM, The Moore Building, Miami Design District
2014 Disturbing Innocence, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
[catalogue]
Hidden and Revealed: Representations of Women by Women,
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Love Story - The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter
Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere,
Vienna [catalogue]
Nude, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
SHE: Picturing women at the turn of the 21st century, David
Winton Bell Gallery, Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island
Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection,
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella
Agnelli, Turin [catalogue]
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, Red Bull Studios, New
York
Queensize - Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, me
Collectors Room/Stiftung Olbricht,
Berlin
2013 Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City,
Brooklyn [catalogue published in 2015]
Expanding the Field of Painting, Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston
2012 Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
[catalogue]
The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, Connecticut [catalogue
published in 2014]
Faces, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens [catalogue]
Haunting Narratives: Detours from Philadelphia Realism, 1935
to the Present, Woodmere Art
Museum, Philadelphia [catalogue]
New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York
Pittura (1995-2009), Studio Guenzani, Milan
Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Road Ahead, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
2011 80 @ 80, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
[catalogue]
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke
Collection, The Dayton Art
Institute, Ohio [catalogue]
Dublin Contemporary 2011: Terrible Beauty – Art, Crisis,
Change & The Office of NonCompliance,
Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin [online catalogue published in
2012]
Full Circle: The Evolution of Fine Art Printmaking at
Universal Limited Art Editions, Gardiner
Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Images from a Floating World: 18th and 19th Century Japanese
Erotic Prints and the Echo in
Modern and Contemporary Art, Fredericks & Freiser
Gallery, New York
Legacy: Selections from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to the
Whitney Museum of American Art,
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
Mars vs. Venus: Images of Male and Female, Greg Kucera
Gallery, Seattle
New York Prints of Mind: Prints from the Universal Limited
Art Editions, Schweinfurth Memorial
Art Center, Auburn, New York [itinerary: Stone Quarry Hill
Art Center, Cazenovia, New
York]
NY: New Perspectives, Brand New Gallery, Milan
Sammler-Leidenschaft, Museum Stift Admont, Austria
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt [itinerary:
Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux]
[catalogue]
Universal Limited Art Editions, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa
[itinerary: Hiram Butler Gallery,
Houston, Texas]
2010 American Printmaking Now, National Art Museum of China,
Beijing [itinerary: Guan Shanyue
Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou,
China; Shanghai Art
Museum]
Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary
Painting, Visual Arts Gallery, School
of Visual Arts, New York [catalogue]
Dirty Kunst, Seventeen, London
Face to Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
Hecate's Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz
Collection, London [catalogue]
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art,
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Size Does Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
[catalogue]
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, Minnesota
You've Gone Too Far This Time, Faggionato Fine Arts, London
2009 30th Anniversary, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica,
California
Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New
York
The Modern Wing, Art Institute of Chicago
Paint Made Flesh, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville, Tennessee [itinerary: The
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester,
New York] [catalogue]
Party at Chris's House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York
Robert Rauschenberg and His Contemporaries: Recent Prints
from Universal Limited Art
Editions, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
Talk to Me Dirty..., Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York
Universal Limited Art Editions: Then and Now, Greenfield
Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica,
California
2008 Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
[catalogue]
Bad Painting — good art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig Wien, Vienna [catalogue]
Diana and Actaeon: The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked
Body/Diana und Actaeon: Der
verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunstpalast,
Düsseldorf [catalogue]
Female Forms and Facets: Artwork by Women from 1975 to the
Present, Central Connecticut
State University Art Galleries, New Britain
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York
Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel), Weserburg Museum
für moderne Kunst, Bremen,
Germany [catalogue published in 2009]
Happy Vacation, Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York
Légende, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, France
[catalogue]
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art
from the Logan Collection, Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New
York [catalogue]
Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper, Delaware Center for
Contemporary Arts, Wilmington
Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection, Museum
of Contemporary Art San Diego,
La Jolla, California
2007 Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing
(organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation)
[itinerary: Shanghai Museum
and Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art; Pushkin Museum of
Fine Arts, Moscow;
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao] [catalogue]
Artist Collaborations: Fifty Years at Universal Limited Art
Editions, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection
(Martina Yamin, Class of
1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College,
Wellesley, Massachusetts
[catalogue]
the feminine mysterious, Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm
Beach, Florida
In Flux, Ikon Ltd., Santa Monica, California
Multiplex: Directions in Art 1970 to Now, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Paper, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New
York
The Present: The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam
ULAE: New Editions, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York
2006 The Other Side #2. Radical Pursuits: Delights in the
subversive and sublime, Tony Shafrazi
Gallery, New York
Painting Codes. I codici della pittura, Galleria Comunale
d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone,
Italy [catalogue]
People. Volti, corpi e segni contemporanei dalla collezione
di Ernesto Esposito, Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples [catalogue]
2005 Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard
Collection of Art on Paper, Gallery of
Contemporary Art, University of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Laguna's Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections,
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach,
California
"Post" and After: Contemporary Art from the
Brandeis University Art Collection, The Rose Art
Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
2004 The Charged Image: From the Collection of Douglas S.
Cramer, Joseloff Gallery, University of
Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut [catalogue]
Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
New Prints 2004/Spring, International Print Center, New York
The Print Show, Exit Art, New York
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
She's Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York
SITE Santa Fe 5th International Biennial: Disparities and
Deformations, Our Grotesque, Santa
Fe, New Mexico [catalogue]
2003 Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer,
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville,
Kentucky [catalogue]
Self Portraits: A Vogue Portfolio, Deitch Projects, New York
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Maine College of Art, Portland
Stephen Greene: Painter and Teacher, Addison Gallery of
American Art, Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
[catalogue]
Terrible Beauty, Roebling Hall, New York
Woman on woman, Whitebox Art Center, New York
2002 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National
Academy of Design, New York [catalogue]
de Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent
Collection, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
[catalogue]
Go Figure, LUXE, New York
New Prints 2002/Summer, International Print Center, New York
Visual Jury 2002 Exhibition, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown,
Massachusetts
2001 Arte Contemporáneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno,
Mexico City [catalogue]
Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Arts,
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New
York
Contemporary Collectors XVI, Museum of Contemporary Art San
Diego, La Jolla, California
furor scribendi: Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa
Monica, California
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
[catalogue]
Naked Since 1950, C&M Arts, New York [catalogue]
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More…On Collecting, Western
Art Gallery, Western Washington
University, Bellingham (organized by Independent Curators
International) [itinerary:
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Akron
Art Museum, Ohio;
South Bend Regional Museum, Indiana; Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts]
[catalogue]
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery,
London
2000 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York [catalogue]
46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C. [online
catalogue]
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York [catalogue]
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for
Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor
Cultural Center, New York [catalogue]
Go Figure, Norfolk Public Library, Connecticut
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
City, New York [catalogue]
Persona(l): Selections from the Robert J. Shiffler
Collection, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana
University, Bloomington
A Plurality of Truths, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York
[catalogue]
Salon, Delfina Project Space, London
Twisted. Urban Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting,
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
The Netherlands [catalogue]
Works on Paper 2000, American Ambassador's Residence,
Bratislava [catalogue]
1999 6th Istanbul Biennial: The Passion and the Wave,
Istanbul [catalogue]
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American
Academy of Arts and Letters, New
York
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan
Collection, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art [catalogue]
Negotiating Small Truths, Blanton Museum of Art, University
of Texas at Austin [catalogue]
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The Nude in Contemporary Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
[catalogue]
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
The Time of Our Lives, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York [catalogue]
1998 From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998, Max Protetch
Gallery, New York
Now and Later, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Connecticut [catalogue Then and Now:
Art Since 1945 at Yale]
People, Places, and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield,
Connecticut [catalogue]
A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan
Collection, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art [catalogue]
Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond
[itinerary: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati] [catalogue]
The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London [catalogue]
1997 My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women
Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago [catalogue]
The Name of the Place, Casey Kaplan, New York
Project Painting, Lehmann Maupin and Basilico Fine Arts, New
York [catalogue]
SLAD, apexart, New York
Women's Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary
Painting, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina [exhibition
publication]
1996 Adicere Animos, Cesena-Cesenatico, Bologna [catalogue]
Early Learning, L & R Entwistle Ltd., London
Heart's Desire, Judy Ann Goldman, Boston
Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Norfolk '96, Yale University Summer School of Music and Art,
Norfolk, Connecticut
Rome Invitational, Tyler School of Art, Temple University,
Philadelphia
The Tailor's Dummy, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica,
California
What I did on my summer vacation, White Columns, New York
1995 Diverse Group/One Direction, apexart, New York
[catalogue]
Gang Warfare, The MacKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Not Not (Who's There?), E.S. Vandam, New York
An Offering to San Simon, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa
Monica, California
On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow [catalogue]
The Portrait Now, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
Pittura/Immedia. Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Neue Galerie am
Landesmuseum Joanneum and
Künstlerhaus, Graz [itinerary: Műcsarnok Budapest]
[catalogue]
Youth Culture Killed My Dog (But I Don't Really Mind),
Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago
[catalogue]
1994 Don't Postpone Joy or Collecting Can Be Fun, Neue
Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
[itinerary: Austrian Cultural Institute, New York]
I, Myself & Me, The Interart Center, New York
New Work, Galerie Johan Jonker, Amsterdam
NY-NL-XX, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands
Out West and Back East: New Work from Los Angeles and New
York, Santa Monica Museum of
Art, California
Up the Establishment, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1993 The Figure as Fiction: The Figure in Visual Art and
Literature, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati [catalogue]
Medium Messages, Wooster Gardens, New York
Mr. Serling's Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa
Monica, California
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New
York [itinerary: Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art,
California; Forum for
Contemporary Art, St. Louis; The American Center, Paris]
[catalogue published in 1994]
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Connecticut [catalogue]
1992 The Anti-Masculine, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition, Elizabeth Koury, New York
Little Men/Little Women, White Columns, New York
A Paper Trail, Berland/Hall Gallery, New York
1991 FIAR International. Art Under 30, Palazzo della
Permanente, Milan [itinerary: Galleria del
Chiostro, Rome; L'Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris; Accademia
Italiana della Arti, London;
National Academy of Design, New York; Wight Art Gallery,
University of California,
Los Angeles] [catalogue]
Fine Arts Work Benefit Show, Twining Gallery, New York
1989 Juried Show '89, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts,
Summit
1988 Emerging Artists, WWAC Gallery, Westport, Connecticut
Twenty Artists Choose Twenty Artists, Provincetown Art
Museum, Massachusetts
1987 New Work, New Talent, New Haven, Harcus Gallery, Boston
1986 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston
In her own words:
“The self-reflexiveness of the picture is
a joy for me, because although it is very organized, it came completely out of
disorder. It was not about planning, it was about finding. Even the fact that
there’s an isosceles triangle organizing the plane that they’re all sitting on
was a big surprise to me. Once I saw that it happened into the painting, I
seized the opportunity and made it even clearer. Also, finding a title for this
painting was a long process of elimination. I tried and rejected everything until
I realized it should be called the most obvious thing—Triptych—because of how
things constantly kept arranging themselves in tripartite structures, either
triangles or triads.”
Representative
Galleries:
David Zwirner
Green Grassy
For
more Information:
http://www.yuskavage.com/