Looking at Yuskavage’s paintings, I am reminded of the way I feel about America when I return home after living abroad. I am overwhelmed by the lush fecundity the license, the writ too largeness, the abrasive vulgarity. The finesse of Yuskavage’s paintings is her rejoinder to these qualities in our culture…
Lisa Yuskavage may be the most controversial painter of her generation. Her loaded subject matter have been referred to as "outrageous quasi-pornographic sirens" "anatomically impossible bimbos."