We hope you’ve all had an egg-cellent Easter weekend (sorry we couldn’t resist). To mark the occasion, here’s one of art’s most enthusiastic egg employers, Sarah Lucas, in her 1996 work Self-Portrait with Fried Eggs. The British artist frequently interrogates gender stereotypes in her work, and this image is no exception. Lucas’ gender-neutral clothing and open-legged stance (the often male-associated “manspread”) are contrasted against the two fried eggs that crudely evoke, and highlight, her breasts—to clever, and comedic effect. Read more about the artwork, and the egg’s multifaceted role in the art world, in Emily Steer’s 2017 feature on the subject for Elephant.
