Before Willem de Kooning displayed a woman's crotch, Chaim Soutine painted female faces like pudenda. (haberarts.com)
Lisa Yuskavage David Zwirner 533 W. 19th St., through June 13 Lisa Yuskavage has added a wrinkle to her 20 - year obsession with depicting women masturbating posed with legs spread so wide it was almost embarrassing to look (a weird feeling to have in the presence of something painted so beautifully), voluptuaries with erect nipples, sloe - eyed beauties, bushy pudenda, and freakishly twiggy women. (vulture.com)
Some of it comes blatant, as in the barely abstracted pudenda of Judy Chicago's glazed ceramic «Georgia O'Keeffe Plate # 1» (1979), from Chicago's notorious installation «The Dinner Party.» (chron.com)