Lisa Yuskavage

The one thing that is sometimes quite frustrating about running this site, is finding an artist that you fully fall in love with through a few snippets about them that you find on the net, and then sadly discover that they don’t have their own dedicated site to showcase their work.

Lisa Yuskavage is one such artist. Her paintings of busty blonde women in surreal lighted settings are nothing short of breathtaking, but she doesn’t have all her work compiled on one site.

My fav piece of info so far regarding Yuskavage has been the following from Contemporary Art Project… and I quote…

She is working in the minefield of male sexual fantasies seen from a woman’s perspective. “Kathy” is a friend of the artist who has been the model for the artist’s blonde bombshell, a character she calls “Motherfucker”. One of the five “bad habits” (Socialclimber, Asspicker, Headshrinker, Foodeater) she personifies in her paintings. “My work has always been about things in myself that I feel incredibly uncomfortable with and embarrassed by. I exploit what’s dangerous and scares me about myself.”

I love this girl. Check out the following sites to see bits (no pun intended) of Lisa’s beautiful work and information about the artist, here and here.