interview by SABINE HELLER portrait by JASON SCHMIDT All artwork images courtesy of Lisa Yuskavage and David Zwirner Gallery, New York LISA YUSKAVAGE has the skill of an old master, the imagination of a manga illustrator, the naughtiness of a Catholic schoolgirl, and a serious art school education from Yale. Her color-drenched world of hyper-erotic female nudes defies all conventions of beauty, repression, power, and surrender. Amid such paradoxes, Lisa’s paintings resist simple interpretation. I met Lisa at her studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. SABINE HELLER — How would you describe your paintings? LISA YUSKAVAGE — Every aspect is imbued with mood or psychological importance. It’s not just the figures. Each character and each element add characteristics. In Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining, when the camera follows the little boy down the hall and he stops, the camera keeps going. The camera isn’t tracking the boy — it’s got a…