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The focus on self-portraiture seems to serve a dual function: to highlight the best examples of self-portraiture throughout time, but also to show us how seminal artists have viewed themselves throughout history.
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Nan Goldin is great — she did a lot of self-portraiture.
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Up until Women in Kuwait, Alasaker's work typically relied on self-portraiture.
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A lot of your more recent work is based in self portraiture.
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Their works are acts of self-portraiture that defy the traditional white gaze.
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The display was delightfully eclectic, ranging from self-portraiture to Walt Disney animations.
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SRS: It looks like you do a fair bit of self-portraiture, too?
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Self-portraiture has long served as a promotional tool, and has rarely rewarded modesty.
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Several paintings here feature women taking "gym selfies," a subgenre of Instagram self-portraiture.
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Self-portraiture takes many forms in the show, one of them being trans-species.
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Self-portraiture takes many forms in the exhibition, one of them being trans-species.
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As for the future of digital self-portraiture, he believes the selfie will live on.
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It went viral, as people across the internet debated the teen's choice of self-portraiture.
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In collaboration with the Creators Project, we ask seven multimedia artists to revitalize self portraiture.
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Everything but the "self" comes out in the self-portraiture of Hungarian photographer Borbála Földes.
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Self-portraiture is employed to showcase the artist in his most open and receptive states.
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Writing autobiography, like all self-portraiture, is an art, even if it can be very lifelike.
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Photographer Lizzy Gadd specializes in self-portraiture, and this photo positions her as a mother nature figure.
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Photographer, filmmaker, and artist Hobbes Ginsberg is best known for her probing, confessional, and deeply communicative self-portraiture.
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Probably, he means a touch of self-portraiture: No choreographer is more steeped in ballet history than he.
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Their various exhibits around the world, plus art selfie-takers' backlogged snapshots, yielded a dearth of prime self-portraiture.
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"Self-portraiture is a form of exposing myself to what I fear the most, interacting with people," Lazar says.
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Glenda Lissette is a Guatemalan-American photographer and filmmaker whose self portraiture focuses on her experiences growing up online.
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Much of the exhibit revolves around an unusual kind of self-portraiture: photographs of the ocean, made by the ocean.
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The body seems to have turned from a sexualized space to a politicized one, and there is much self-portraiture.
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Since a lot of it is CG self-portraiture, I asked her to share a flesh-and-blood selfie, too.
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In a parallel (but dimensionally separated) move to hers, I tried to push towards the outer limits of self-portraiture.
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But even outside of those two records, she's constantly recording these sorts of songs, engaging in vibrant, unflinching self-portraiture.
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These poems anticipate Cindy Sherman's self-portraiture in different guises: There is a self-conscious, pre-postmodern atmosphere around them.
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BEN BRANTLEY Clothes were more than just clothes to Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), the Mexican tyro of Surrealist self-portraiture.
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Given his personality, "this kind of recurring element of self-portraiture might seem a little bit surprising," Mr. Tarsia said.
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Much of the self-portraiture is based on personal experience and speaks to the aggressions that black people suffer globally.
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One of the more fascinating, and de Chirico-esque, paintings on display combines aspects of still life, self-portraiture, and landscape.
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Jonas's 1972 films Left Side, Right Side and Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy were standouts of layered black-and-white self-portraiture.
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To me, it's shocking to think that nobody can work with costume and self-portraiture just because Sherman did it too.
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I'm the person feeling these fears, and using self portraiture allows these images to be a true manifestation of those emotions.
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Hubbs exhibited self-portraiture from two decades of work as well as an image of a mannequin wrapped in black velvet.
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An exhibition at apexart shows how 12 Pakistani artists are exploring performance and self-portraiture to define their identities on their terms.
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It's the closest thing to self-portraiture that I could imagine, because these objects are the real things I use every day.
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This is the merest glimmer that, even more than in the rest of the show, "FEELINTHECAT" is a piece of self-portraiture.
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That is what has suggested to me to take a somewhat different perspective on contemporary self-portraiture here, stopping short of posthumanism.
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Ms. Ferrato famously made a series on domestic violence, inspiring change and offering support to victims As Ms. Barnett describes, self-portraiture is the ultimate symbol of control, and the show has more formal works by Samuel Fosso, Edward Steichen, Cindy Sherman (who does not usually categorize her work as self-portraiture) and a homage to her by Yasumasa Morimura.
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"Selfies are just another form of self-portraiture, so saying the selfie dead is like saying the era of photography is over," Honton says.
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The artist's lifelong investigation of portraiture and self-portraiture had more to do with a fascination for the performance of the self than narcissism.
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On the opposing wall, the colorfully suited subjects of Ruth Ossai's photographs invoke the flamboyant and heavily queer-coded self-portraiture of Samuel Fosso.
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For the last seven years, creative self-portraiture has provided an outlet to explore gender and sexuality, and what they mean in his life.
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" MacDonald likens his initial self-portraiture as somewhat "self-involved and vaguely incestuous, like catching a glimpse of yourself in the mirror during sex.
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For her, the fragmented nature of self-portraiture exists in the cracks of her own memory and resurfaces within the frames of her photographs.
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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. came to photography through self-portraiture, using it at a means to understand and confront the intersections of his identity.
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As far as I can tell, that article was the first in-depth journalistic look at the emergent phenomenon of the quickie digital self-portraiture.
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The precisely cataloged and annotated portraits of journalists will sit alongside three other bodies of work by the actress: All are forms of self-portraiture.
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LL: We were all happy to participate in your printmaking workshop because it was the first time we had come together to learn self-portraiture.
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Muholi is known for dramatically increasing the contrast in her self-portraiture so as to appear stunningly pitch black, her gorgeous darkness and regal stoicism heightened.
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LI: Your self-portraiture workshop was a good way to prove to our own Haitian people that we can create beautiful images that reflect our identity.
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Just as selfies can counter the stuffiness and formality of certain traditions of self-portraiture, the Museum of Selfies is a counterweight to pompous art museums.
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The Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, born on New Year's Eve 400 years ago, also saw self-portraiture as a means to boast of his technical acuity.
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From Eugène Atget's reflective vitrines to Lee Friedlander's sly self-portraiture, photographers have long been in thrall to the visual complications glass can inject into a composition.
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Though nudity and self-portraiture are staples of the art canon, the way Chiara Mazzocchi incorporates both in her visual and performative works is anything but usual.
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Working primarily in the realm of self-portraiture, she is able to act as various fictional characters, while exploring her own personality and history in the process.
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Some feminists have viewed her body-positive art as exploitive in an old, essentializing way, failing to see the claim to power implicit in her erotic self-portraiture.
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Ramiken's first Brooklyn show, "Nobodies," goes to Andra Ursuta, whose six remarkable glass sculptures, resting on cinder-block plinths, create an arresting tableau of sex, stress and self-portraiture.
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The Museum of Selfies is trying to have it both ways: acting as both a playground for selfie-takers, and a gently educational venue for learning about self-portraiture.
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The addition of such personal detail woven seamlessly into the installation sets up a situation in which the mind vacillates between state narratives based on objective records and self-portraiture.
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This project, from the onset, was us opening ourselves up to a certain amount of vulnerability and the camera phone is such a perfect tool to address self portraiture with.
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And while Minimalists and Conceptualists had their aesthetic and philosophical reasons for rejecting figuration, Gilbert & George's use of self-portraiture opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art.
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The exhibition features works by 11 artists who are exploring self-portraiture, either straightforwardly or by circumvention, by photographing elements of their environment that help constitute their definition of themselves.
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Based in Mumbai, Mr. Kallat has been best known since the mid-1990s for allegorical paintings and sculptures combining news photographs, self-portraiture and images of urban chaos and violence.
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Some are choosing to evade the selfie net by muffling and camouflaging their self-portraiture, which may be why social media is intoxicated with the Instagram images of Cindy Sherman.
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Born in Memphis to immigrants from China and Vietnam, Kha's work plays with ideas of self-portraiture to capture shifting relationships to home, identity, and sexuality, often in the American South.
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Beyond the employment of external objects, Pallas' practice is also unique in his use of self-portraiture as a tool within fashion photography, a stylistic mechanism usually separate from the genre.
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Those thematic sections include self-portraiture, the relationship between the police and LGBTQ people of color, responses to the AIDS pandemic, and surrealism and the construction of queer-friendly alternate realms.
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What's more, Huxtable feels shoe-horned into this exhibition since a great deal of her work and the essence of her practice is self-portraiture that works the tropes of identity.
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And so they do, Mr. Walsh might argue, since it is through such deluded self-portraiture that we are able to function in a world always threatening to erase our identities.
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At De Soto Gallery, Ivan Forde, in a set of large-scale cyanotypes that look more like paintings or prints than photographs, brings mythology, colonization, and self-portraiture simultaneously to life.
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This is a central tenant of Man, The Posters, a series of photographs by Carlee Fernandez that combine self-portraiture with cardboard cutouts of men who have inspired her throughout her life.
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The painter Nengi Omuku, whose works of abstracted, fragmented self-portraiture explore mental health and fractured identities, is organizing the renovation, by artists, of a building at the city's main psychiatric hospital.
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They liken selfies to cave-man drawings, Renaissance portraits, and self-portraiture, and also want to tell the story of the technological and artistic convergence that made selfies in their current form materialize.
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She has yet to settle on a name for this type of 3D self-portraiture, but the project currently exists as a collection or archive people can explore and experience in several ways.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artist Mari Katayama uses photographic self-portraiture to dismantle expected notions of beauty and sexuality and to explore the interconnectedness of the human body to fashion and props.
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Using methods of appropriation and costumed self-portraiture associated with the Pictures Generation, Gonzales-Day was busy in the close of the 20th century stacking dynamite at the door of the white art canon.
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O'Reilly is perhaps best known for his photomontage and collage works where he explores notions of transgression and subjectivity by juxtaposing contemporary imagery and his own self portraiture with visual fragments of art history.
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When untold millions of selfies bob across social networks each day, it's natural to feel nostalgic for the old craft of self-portraiture, and the time and skill artists lavished on their own representations.
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Her self-portraiture, on which she's been working over the past four years, seeks to capture the many sides of her character, the stories she has to tell, and the political intersections of her identity.
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" Across all of Tyrell's work, self-portraiture is a tool for figuring out larger ideas and potential universal truths about the construction of identity, Western history, and to " flesh out ideas with no one watching.
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To that end, her book is divided into five sections, covering everything from the use of clothes in portraiture, including artists' self-portraiture, to depictions of national identity and the drives for modernization and liberalization.
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They demystify the influences and experiments of a great artist, even as they also point to the gap between Ms. Sherman's vital, unsettling practice of sideways self-portraiture and the narcissistic practice of selfie snapping.
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" But the curators also agree that self-portraiture can function as an important vehicle for the authentic self-expression of an artist: "When done with complete truth, it offers a glimpse of someone's thoughts and feelings.
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Then it went to tempera painting and self-portraiture, then to printmaking, and now in the last week, we're talking about doing a mural with a school, and we're also talking about doing a puppetry workshop.
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That was my interest when I was working with my image: a very specific kind of self-portraiture, where the character was a person, as opposed to somebody like Cindy Sherman's characters where she's exploring an everywoman.
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Artist and photographer Cindy Sherman is the grande dame of self-portraiture, making a career of casting herself as countless (mostly) female archetypes, from silver-screen sirens and historical figures to society mavens and birthday-party clowns.
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The exhibit is arranged by category: family, labor, war, social change, celebrity (including a carte de visite of Sojourner Truth), self-presentation, identification, self-portraiture and appropriation, which includes Carrie Mae Weems's appropriated photos of enslaved people.
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Even though Cindy Sherman has made a career out of self-portraiture, when she showed up at Mnuchin Gallery for the opening of her first New York exhibition since 2012, I was nervous I wouldn't recognize her.
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The beautifully-designed first issue, themed "Self Portrait," features the work of 31 contributors and is a physical "exploration of film and analogues process-based female self portraiture and artist words on the printed page," says Smith.
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Her signature technique was to use herself in carefully constructed photographs, videos and performance works — sometimes her whole body, sometimes just her lower torso, her legs or an arm — but not in the conventional terms of self-portraiture.
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The contrast on display between more traditional documentary-style portraiture and work remniscent of self-portraiture (particularly in the age of the much derided selfie) demonstrates the distinct opportunities available for the self-fashioning and presentation of queer identities.
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As a mixed-race woman, she had been exploring themes of identity in her work, through self-portraiture and paintings of her family, and wanted to go deeper, especially in light of the upcoming anniversary of Loving v. Virginia.
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Seon's work is grounded in her ethnic identity which is indicated by the facial attributes of her characters, but by using thread as an element of her figuration, she also stretches the parameters of the genre of self-portraiture.
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The video's a sort of psychedelic self-portraiture, featuring overlapping images of FXWRK herself, blooming in time with the track presents a lot of footage alongside its negative, suggesting a full spectrum of color and meaning amidst its three-minute runtime.
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The selfie, the act of self-portraiture which once threatened to spawn a society of narcissists, could be the key to a more politically engaged electorate, according to one technology company aiming to make the voting system more secure and democratic.
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The live performance, part of the two-channel video piece "Great Sacrifice" (2011) by Hurmat ul Aim, is included in Promises to Keep, an exhibition centered on self-portraiture and performance art by 12 Pakistani female artists, curated by Rabbya Naseer.
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This zigzag semblance, along with Man Ray's series of Duchamp cross-dressed as Rrose Sélavy, are benchmark pieces in the historical path of conceptual-fictional self-portraiture trailed by Urs Lüthi, Claude Cahun, Marcel Bascoulard, and Cindy Sherman, among others.
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While the complete season hasn't been announced, there are a few known quantities: Keyon Gaskin returns to Realness with his new "[a swatch of lavender]," in which he explores the timely notion of self-portraiture in an age of technology.
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" As for the cause of her shift to performance and self-portraiture from dance, the artist leaves me with another philosophical remark: "Photography and video art are a powerful medium to explain humanity to mankind, through self-analysis and self-awareness.
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Her latest project, Behind the Mask, Another Mask, is part of a dual-solo exhibition with French artist Claude Cahun at the National Portrait Gallery in London, addresses topics surrounding identity and gender through the avenue of self-portraiture, masquerade, and performance.
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Some features, like F. E. Moore's "Hiawatha" (1913), Edward S. Curtis's recently restored "In the Land of the Head Hunters" (1914) and Rollin S. Dixon's "History of the American Indian" (1915), even aspired to self-portraiture in featuring largely Native American casts.
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So Mr. O'Doherty has merged two modern art styles often defined as fundamentally objective — the one about unmetaphorical matter, the other about abstract concepts — and personalized them, even turned them into vehicles of self-portraiture: physical, in one case; cultural, in the other.
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Though none of the works in his current solo show, Body Clock at Cave gallery in Detroit, deal with diabetes directly — the stated themes are sleep, synesthesia, and self-portraiture — it seems almost impossible to dismiss a connection to this underlying condition.
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KEN JOHNSON Kate Werble Gallery 83 Vandam StreetSoHo Through next Friday The smarter-than-it-sounds summer group show "Sexting" at Kate Werble Gallery scrutinizes the strange combinations of overconfidence and vulnerability, intimacy and distance, in the supposedly ephemeral art of sexual self-portraiture.
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The Brooklyn-based artist uses costume, photography, and film to produce elaborate narrative scenes that combine pop culture tropes, sex dolls, mannequins, and self-portraiture to explore the ways in which identity, like art, is both a social construction and an authentic expression of self.
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" She continues, "Self-portraiture was a way to deal with a very personal experience I was living through at the moment, and as cliche as it sounds, it was some sort of a therapy for me, the only way I knew how to cope.
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Morgan uses the genre of self-portraiture in a variety of compositional structures that conjure complex psychological states: pairing her own image with an infant or a doppelgänger to set up a set of binaries that unravel how we think about identity as a single, unitary state.
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I don't just mean his recent focus on death or his urge toward self-portraiture, nor do I mean his bewildering decision to remove himself to Long Beach and Miami, or even the trail of late nights and young women he has begun to leave behind.
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Like most other artists on Instagram, she also used her account to record shows she saw (more than two dozen pictures at the Fondation Louis Vuitton's recent blockbuster of the Shchukin Collection) and to celebrate other artists, including the activist South African photographer Zanele Muholi, who also uses disguises in her self-portraiture.
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In perhaps the most bewildering image in the gallery, the artist has painted, in another instance of indirect self-portraiture, an arm jutting into the frame at an upward angle (we can tell it's the chain-smoking Guston from the spatters of paint on his sleeve and the two cigarettes, one smoked down to the butt and the other burning like a volcano, clasped between his fingers) against a black background, suggesting that it is the dead of night (the 1988 memoir written by Musa Mayer, the artist's daughter, about her father was called Night Studio).
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