Veröffentlicht am 24.04.2015
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Lisa Yuskavage
April 23 - June 13, 2015
Opening reception: Thursday, April 23, 6 – 8 PM
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition
of recent paintings and pastels by Lisa
Yuskavage, on view at 533 West 19th Street in
New York.
Yuskavage’s works merge popular culture and a
deep engagement with the history of art. Widely
associated with a re-emergence of the figurative
in contemporary painting, she has always
maintained the primacy of color, with her
narratives intricately based in her use of paint. In
this new selection of works, atonal and prismatic
spectrums appear as personifications of
themselves, and her characters become like
embodiments of various tones.
The exhibition takes its conceptual and
chronological point of departure in Hippies, a
painting from 2013 of five intersecting nudes.
Behind a pale woman, four male figures fan out
from her on either side, almost like a Hindu
deity, each a different hue. The rainbow-like
effect is reminiscent of the cangiantismo
technique advanced in the Renaissance, in which
tonal variations were used to indicate the
presence of the supernatural in otherwise
realistic subject matter. The effect is achieved
against a muted, neutral background—here a
dark landscape—where grisaille, an almost
monochrome color scheme, is applied.
Lisa Yuskavage
April 23 - June 13, 2015
Opening reception: Thursday, April 23, 6 – 8 PM
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition
of recent paintings and pastels by Lisa
Yuskavage, on view at 533 West 19th Street in
New York.
Yuskavage’s works merge popular culture and a
deep engagement with the history of art. Widely
associated with a re-emergence of the figurative
in contemporary painting, she has always
maintained the primacy of color, with her
narratives intricately based in her use of paint. In
this new selection of works, atonal and prismatic
spectrums appear as personifications of
themselves, and her characters become like
embodiments of various tones.
The exhibition takes its conceptual and
chronological point of departure in Hippies, a
painting from 2013 of five intersecting nudes.
Behind a pale woman, four male figures fan out
from her on either side, almost like a Hindu
deity, each a different hue. The rainbow-like
effect is reminiscent of the cangiantismo
technique advanced in the Renaissance, in which
tonal variations were used to indicate the
presence of the supernatural in otherwise
realistic subject matter. The effect is achieved
against a muted, neutral background—here a
dark landscape—where grisaille, an almost
monochrome color scheme, is applied.
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