Saturday, March 6, 2010






Sara Lucas: Ever since her 1992 exhibition "Penis nailed to a Board", English artist Sarah Lucas (born 1962) has been considered a member of the central group of the Young British Art phenomenon. Alongside the main protagonists Damian Hirst, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst and Gary Hume, she was represented in the legendary «Freeze» show of 1988, but from the very beginning developed her own idiosyncratic artistic vocabulary, focusing on the major themes of life such as gender relationships, sexual and social identity, death, and destructivity. Her oeuvre, which embraces photography, collage, sculpture, installations and drawings, plays with social clichés, with linguistic and visual representations of sexuality and gender ascriptions. Characteristic of Sarah Lucas’ oeuvre is the use of simple everyday materials and objects. She takes foods, abandoned furniture and found objects to create cheeky and provocative objects whose frequently macabre qualities often have a wit of their own and explore very substantive topics relating to subjective and collective experience. This web site has a-lot of info on Sara that is very compelling and makes you want to find more of her works.http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wwar.com/newsletter/images/2005/04/2005-04-04-7451.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2005/04/04/32888.html&usg=__KR9YurAEqaHANoO7ag4YZXZ65Lw=&h=149&w=150&sz=3&hl=en&start=8&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=u8R0K8KuiZ6F3M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsarah%2Blucas%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4DKUS_enUS248US251%26tbs%3Disch:1

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