Fried eggs, furniture, and cigarette butts are just a few of the unconventional materials found in the work of artist Sarah Lucas. Emerging in the late 1980s among the loosely grouped Young British Artists, Lucas became known for artworks that employ visual puns and bawdy humor to foreground uncomfortable realities about sexuality, gender, class, and death. Transforming everyday objects into sculptures that resemble body parts, her tongue-in-cheek approach often confronts objectified characterizations of the female form. In her Bunny series, for example, Lucas stuffs stockings to suggest the female figure, but positions the material to make the shape appear abstract and contorted, challenging stereotypes of female beauty and behavior.

–Daniel Mauro, from the Glenstone Field Guide