The New Museum is presenting the first American survey of the work of London-born British artist Sarah Lucas.

Lucas has created a distinctive body of work that plays with and challenges traditional notions of gender, sexuality, identity and power. Using everyday objects, Lucas often subvert notions of sex and social norms by prompting the viewer to challenge its preconceptions on where art begins.

Lucas does so often with humor, ultimately provoking a mixed bag of reactions in response to her set pieces—vegetables, mattresses, fruits, furniture pieces.

A feminist at heart, Lucas uses the human body as a recurring theme through her work, incorporating not only feminine but also using masculine elements, such as phalli, as objects of fascination which she constructs into humorous tools of desire.

Her retrospective at New Gallery in New York City, which runs now through January 20, 2019, is the first survey of her work on American soil, and one of the more compelling shows to see this Fall and Winter season.

Sarah Lucas, Got a Salmon on #3, 1997, R-type print, 50 × 41 3⁄8″.