Lisa Yuskavage’s “The Brood” in St. Louis
Lisa Yuskavage’s “The Brood” opens at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on January 15, 2016 and runs until April 3.
Brood, 2005-06, oil on linen, 77 x 69”.
From the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’s website:
Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood presents twenty-five years of the New York-based artist’s work, espousing her bold vision for contemporary figurative painting. The Brood is Yuskavage’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States in over fifteen years, comprising key paintings that chart her emergence in the early 1990s to the present. Merging the grand tradition of portraiture with the expansive vocabulary of female transgression and empowerment, Yuskavage’s sensuous palette and confrontational subject matter provoke the imagination and create a sometimes polarizing space: the artist presents the female body as a site of defiance and decadence.
The exhibition is curated by Christopher Bedford, Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Jeffrey Uslip, Chief Curator. More on the exhibition here.
Border Crossings’ full interview with the artist can now be read online here.
