"Flora Yukhnovich's monumental paintings combine subjects, themes, and palettes drawn from earlier artistic movements with the dynamic brushwork of postwar American painting.

In Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too, she puts elements of the eighteenth-century Rococo style, characterized by pastel colors and sensual femininity, into conversation with Abstract Expressionism, associated with the swaggering, hypermasculine stance of painters such as Jackson Pollook. The resulting composition hovers between figuration and abstraction, as Yukhnovich's broad, swirling brushwork makes the female nudes all but melt into the surrounding landscape. This fluid, all-over quality, in which landscape and figures slip in and out of focus thwarts conventional objectification of form in favor of a more sensual or even empathetic engagement."