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Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist
After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself.
Eventually, after some struggle, she turned her figures around to face the viewer, and what would come to be the “recipe” (her term) started to emerge: one that integrated her “trashiness” with her love of light, and themes she had been circling all her life without quite registering it. It’s almost like a sexual urge, to do something in a painting.” She told the story of making a picture I like a lot, called Night Classes at the Department of Painting Drawing and Sculpture, looking at it, thinking something was wrong, and feeling nauseous. She painted it from another notebook page she’d recently found from decades ago, on which she’d written “a girl whose father loved her too much.” The two women in it are models she’d picked up at Supper, a restaurant in the East Village.
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