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11 Facts About Lisa Yuskavage

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Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.

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Lisa Yuskavage is known for her figure paintings that challenge conventional understandings of the genre.

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Lisa Yuskavage attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and studied abroad during her third year through the Tyler School of Art's program in Rome, before obtaining her BFA in 1984.

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Since the early 1990s, Lisa Yuskavage has been associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting.

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Lisa Yuskavage's oeuvre is characterized by her ongoing engagement with the history of painting, and in particular the genre of the nude.

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Lisa Yuskavage's paintings encompass landscape and still life genres, with all three often appear within a single work.

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Lisa Yuskavage had a New York exhibit sell out before it opened, and one of her paintings sold at auction for more than $1 million.

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Additionally, Lisa Yuskavage is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new online series, The Artist Project, launched in March 2015, in which she discusses Edouard Vuillard's The Green Interior.

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Lisa Yuskavage's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

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Lisa Yuskavage's work is mentioned in the novel China Rich Girlfriend of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan.

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Lisa Yuskavage has been the recipient of honors and awards that include the Aspen Award for Art ; Temple University Gallery of Success Award ; the Founder's Day Certificate of Honor, Tyler School of the Arts, Philadelphia ; the Tiffany Foundation Grant ; and the MacDowell Colony Fellowship.