Lisa Yuskavage: Fleshed Out.(contemporary art exhibition of partially clad females)

Art in America | July 1, 2001| | Copyright

In her controversial paintings of languid young women with outsized breasts and backsides, Lisa Yuskavage explores what has, throughout art history, remained an almost exclusively male domain.

In Lisa Yuskavage's exhibition of recent paintings at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Manhattan, the subject was a partly clad female posed in an elegant, modern-day parlor, her Victoria's Secret-style lingerie loosely open to expose midriff and breasts. From canvas to canvas, her appearance differs slightly, as she strikes various poses. In one painting, she lounges in languorous ...

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