ICA is pleased to present Lisa Yuskavage's first solo museum
exhibition, focusing upon recent and past works. A native of
Philadelphia and graduate of Tyler School of Art and Yale,
Yuskavage creates images that simultaneously embrace and
undermine traditional and formalistic painting methodology.
Lauded by Village Voice critic Peter
Schjeldahl as an extravagantly deft
painter, Yuskavage has been
represented in over 50 group shows,
including the 2000 Whitney Biennial and
recent exhibitions at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, P.S. 1/The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, and
Aldrich Museum, Connecticut.
Yuskavage creates paintings that are
both unsettling and seductive. While the
content of her work is provocative and sometimes disturbing, the
formal qualities are enticing. She manipulates paint in a style that
synthesizes abstraction and representation, and skillfully quotes
from and refers to a wide range of art historical periods in her
works.
This comprehensive and scholarly exhibition will include 18
large-scale paintings, a series of hydrocal-cast figurines, and
approximately 40 supporting small paintings, monotypes, and
works on paper. Several of the paintings will come from private
collections in Europe and have never been publicly exhibited in the
United States. It has always been on my wish list to have a show
at ICA, Yuskavage says. My memories of growing up in Juniata
Park are an inextricable part of my work, so I'm especially anxious
to see how Philadelphians respond to it.
IMAGE:
Lisa Yuskavage
Day, 1999-2000
oil on linen
84 x 72
Private
Collection, NY
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