Lisa Yuskavage Prints

Yuskavage has been making prints since her first lithography class in her sophomore year of college. Her deep knowledge and interest in the technical processes has guided her five-year collaboration with master printers Bill Goldston and Brian Berry at ULAE and is exemplified by the wide range of complex techniques and unique prints on view here—from twelve-color lithographs, drypoint, chine-collé, monotypes, and monoprints to an inventive new process in which pastel is overlaid on inkjet prints. This Viewing Room demonstrates Yuskavage’s engagement with radical advancements in modern printmaking (the work of Edgar Degas and Jasper Johns are important precedents for her), as well as her desire "not to accept any givens" in her studio. She embraces printmaking as “the perfect medium” for experimenting with materials and researching an image—a process-driven practice that considers, questions, and redefines every component of the print, from the toning of the paper ground to breakthrough achievements such as her characteristic and innovative “atmospheric color.”