
Untitled (twinkle nose), 2021
2023
This portrait presents a digitally altered self-representation featuring a woman with exaggerated features and a whimsical expression. The figure's nose is embellished with a sparkling twinkle effect, while her face is rendered with heightened freckles and an almost doll-like quality. She wears a vibrant multicolored garment in jewel tones that blends into the composition. Decorative star elements are scattered throughout the image, creating a dreamlike and fantastical atmosphere. The work explores themes of artificiality, identity construction, and the manipulation of appearance through digital means.
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- Printed on 310gsm Giclee Canson Baryta paper
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- Auction House · EHC Fine Art Auction
Notes
Lot 134 in EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary on Artsy (May 19, 2026).
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EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary
May 19, 2026
Lot 134
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Japanese · b. 1951

Morimura creates digitally manipulated self-portrait photography where he inserts his own face into iconic imagery using theatrical makeup and costume, directly paralleling Sherman's doll-like exaggerated features and identity play. Both artists use photographic artifice and digital alteration to deconstruct notions of self, representation, and cultural identity.
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American · b. 1977
Linzy creates fantastical, campy self-representations featuring exaggerated personas, vibrant costuming, and whimsical character studies that mirror the pop surrealist and absurdist qualities of this twinkle nose portrait. His work shares Sherman's interest in constructed femininity, theatrical identity, and the playful destabilization of gender and self.
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Chinese · b. 1978
Cao Fei combines digital manipulation, fantastical visual elements like stars and dreamlike atmospheres, and constructed self-representation to explore identity and artifice, closely echoing the decorative surreal qualities and postmodern conceptual framing of this specific Sherman piece. Her work similarly blends pop culture aesthetics with feminist and conceptual art concerns.
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