Lisa Yuskavage's recent series of 23 oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, and drawings reveals her continued fascination with old master paintings and smut; splayed out like Playboy centerfolds, her women glow like Vermeer's. Yuskavage's mixed references are complicated by gender politics — women embrace each other with ambiguous intent, simultaneously protective and sexual — and atypical color palettes, which range from muted mustards to sunset neons. In Persimmon, a fruit and flower arrangement ballasts a wispy girl, whose clothes melt into the tableau. The milky blonde in Blonde Spreading sits in front of a sfumato pastoral background, but her nether regions receive far more attention than her facial features. Flitting between pornography and high art in her superb renderings, Yuskavage both flusters and entrances viewers.

-LM