Lisa Yuskavage
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Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter known for her provocative, psychologically charged figurative works that blend classical techniques with contemporary, often eroticized imagery.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lisa Yuskavage canonical | 2 |
| Lisa Yuskavage: Night Classes | 1 |
| Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood | 1 |
| Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2239538 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lisa Yuskavage Context triple: [David Zwirner Gallery, represents, Lisa Yuskavage]
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A.
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is an American contemporary artist known for her vibrant, rhinestone-studded paintings and photographs that explore Black female identity, beauty, and power.
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B.
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an influential American Abstract Expressionist painter known for her bold, gestural style and for bridging abstraction with figurative imagery in the mid-20th century art scene.
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C.
Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist renowned for her innovative sculptures, installations, and assemblages that often engage with architecture, urban space, and modern consumer culture.
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D.
Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel is a German contemporary artist known for her conceptually driven works that challenge gender roles and traditional distinctions between fine art and craft.
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E.
Barbara Chase
Barbara Chase was an American artist and writer best known as the second wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lisa Yuskavage Target entity description: Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter known for her provocative, psychologically charged figurative works that blend classical techniques with contemporary, often eroticized imagery.
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A.
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is an American contemporary artist known for her vibrant, rhinestone-studded paintings and photographs that explore Black female identity, beauty, and power.
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B.
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an influential American Abstract Expressionist painter known for her bold, gestural style and for bridging abstraction with figurative imagery in the mid-20th century art scene.
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C.
Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist renowned for her innovative sculptures, installations, and assemblages that often engage with architecture, urban space, and modern consumer culture.
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D.
Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel is a German contemporary artist known for her conceptually driven works that challenge gender roles and traditional distinctions between fine art and craft.
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E.
Barbara Chase
Barbara Chase was an American artist and writer best known as the second wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
BFA
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MFA ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
blend of classical techniques and contemporary imagery
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psychologically charged figurative painting ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
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Yale School of Art ⓘ |
| employer | Yale School of Art ⓘ |
| familyName | Yuskavage ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary art
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erotic art ⓘ figurative painting ⓘ |
| genre |
erotic imagery
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figurative art ⓘ |
| givenName | Lisa ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art ⓘ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
contemporary figurative art
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postmodern art ⓘ |
| name | Lisa Yuskavage self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableExhibition |
Lisa Yuskavage
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lisa Yuskavage: Night Classes
Lisa Yuskavage self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood
Lisa Yuskavage self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness
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| notableFor |
eroticized depictions of the female body
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provocative figurative paintings ⓘ psychological complexity in portraits and figures ⓘ use of saturated color ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big Blondes
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The Ones That Don’t Want To: Kelly, Carrie, Trixie ⓘ Triptych ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | faculty member at Yale School of Art ⓘ |
| representedBy |
David Zwirner Gallery
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Greene Naftali Gallery ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
female nudes
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psychological states of her subjects ⓘ sexuality and desire ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lisa Yuskavage Description of subject: Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter known for her provocative, psychologically charged figurative works that blend classical techniques with contemporary, often eroticized imagery.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood
this entity surface form:
Lisa Yuskavage: Wilderness
this entity surface form:
Lisa Yuskavage: Night Classes