Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman’s career is one defined by disguise. Employing herself as model, she uses cosmetics and costume to examine the drama and grotesquery of the modern image; often tinged with menace, her photographs are a chimeric catalogue of type-figures. She began by depicting hypothetical B-movie characters in the 1970s, and has long since trod the boards of dark theatricality. One of the foremost artists in photography, she transgresses the boundaries of self-portraiture with a piercing and often disturbing gaze.
This striking chromogenic print exemplifies Sherman's masterful manipulation of identity and self-representation, in which she transforms herself into an unnamed, archetypal figure drawn from the visual language of cinema and mass media. Rendered with theatrical precision, the work blurs the line between portraiture and performance, inviting the viewer to question the constructed nature of identity and the female image. Housed in the artist's own frame, the work extends Sherman's meticulous control over the presentation and context of her unsettling, chimeric vision.
- Medium
- chromogenic print, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 29, 2015
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