Last Night's Art Talk: Deborah Luster at Watkins

For a combination of a heartbreaking backstory and a catalog of equally heartbreaking work, you can't do much better than Deborah Luster. She was the final artist to participate in this year's

, and about halfway through her lecture last night she joked with the audience about the emotional tenor of her work, asking if we were depressed yet. Then she said her next project would be something lighthearted, like a documentation of the cats of Ireland. Somehow, I doubt it. She's just too good at making the macabre interesting.