Sarah Lucas

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Sarah Lucas is known for her kinesthetic photographs, performances, and sculpture. Appropriating commonplace materials, Lucas’ work makes assertive comments on sexuality, death, and gender. She is recognized as among the most prominent members of the Young British Artists, alongside her contemporaries Damian Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Chris Ofili along with others. The YBAs became famous for their openness to materials and processes, behavioral shock tactics, and a punk-entrepreneurial attitude as they exhibited together in both formal and artist-run spaces in London throughout the 1990s. 

Lucas’ ongoing Marrow series casts the variety of squash—a symbol of growth, fecundity and the English pastoral tradition of annual summer fair vegetable growing competitions—in an exaggerated scale that obfuscates the line between the vegetable body and the animal body. The works are titled with the names of men, adding a further anthropomorphic quality to their presentation. 

Exhibitions of Lucas’s work have been held at tNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing; andNew Museum, New York among others.