Lisa Yuskavage Wee Dude Looks Like Jesus 2014
Oil on linen
33 x 28.3 cm
13 x 11 1/8 in
A cultural framework of looking is foregrounded in Wee Dude Looks Like Jesus, 2014, an affectionate depiction of a bearded figure that, filtered through a lens of 1960s hippiedom, continues a subcultural theme in Yuskavage’s art while referring to the art-historical genre of the nude, which for centuries was shrouded as religious subject matter.
© Lisa Yuskavage
Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner