Pratt Institute, New York
November 27, 2018
Lisa Yuskavage was in conversation with Christopher Bedford, the Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, about her work.
Tuesday, November 27, 7 PM (free and open to the public)
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Higgins Hall
Two solo exhibitions by Yuskavage are on view at David Zwirner in New York through December 15, 2018. Organized in close collaboration with the artist, Babie Brood: Small Paintings 1985–2018 at 533 West 19th Street presents an extensive survey of Yuskavage’s small-scale paintings. A constant and integral part of Yuskavage’s overall practice, the small paintings play a remarkably dynamic and protean role within it. New Paintings at 34 East 69th Street features a group of new large-scale canvases relating to the artist’s recent "Couples" paintings. These charged depictions of often interlocking, interdependent male and female figures developed out of the artist's series of "symbiotic" portraits from the early 2000s that paired two female figures to evoke a sense of a dual manifestation of a single personality.
To coincide with these exhibitions, David Zwirner presents an online Viewing Room highlighting Yuskavage’s printmaking practice.
In 2020, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Aspen Art Museum will co-organize a solo presentation of the artist’s work.
The fourth episode of Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast features Yuskavage in conversation with widely celebrated screenwriter and film director Tamara Jenkins. Counterparts and close friends, Yuskavage and Jenkins discuss how personal experiences inform their creativity—touching on dark comedy, eroticism, and the importance of trusting your own vision.