Night Classes at the Department of Painting Drawing and Sculpture
2018 · Oil on linen
218.4 × 305.1 cm (86 × 120 1/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Lisa Yuskavage
1962
PaintingContemporary
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None documented
4
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27
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102
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13
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Lisa Yuskavage
David Zwirner
2026
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Lisa Yuskavage paints large-scale female figures in oil and acrylic, rendering bodies with flattened perspective and saturated color that oscillate between decorative surface and psychological weight. Her compositions often isolate single or paired nudes against simplified grounds, resisting both classical idealization and contemporary figuration conventions. Working from her studio in New York, she has sustained a practice centered on the formal and conceptual friction between figuration, abstraction, and the erotic charge of the painted surface itself.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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