Lisa Yuskavage: Babie Brood is the first survey of the artists small-scale paintings. While Yuskavage is primarily known for larger canvases, these intimate works offer a new window into her transgressive paintings and complex and influential oeuvre.
Based on the artists imagination, live models, maquettes, and found and staged photographs, the small paintings in this book demonstrate Yuskavages methodical exploration of how images are created and their sources. Some of the small works are studies for large paintings, while others revisit preexisting images. Yet others are one-of-a-kind compositions only created on this intimate scale. As places for experimenting with color, form, and characters as well as a variety of formatsincluding stretched and unstretched linen, canvas boards, wood, and paperthese paintings play a remarkably dynamic role within her work. This catalogue presents the paintings to scale so readers can explore the works as if seeing them in person.
Documenting the artists exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2018, this catalogue includes an essay by Jarrett Earnest that illuminates Yuskavages early influences and explores the constant, often surprising themes that can be found throughout her art.
