
Line Up 2
2014
Line Up 2 presents a single figure arranged against a spare backdrop, the composition stripped to essentials so that posture, gaze, and surface become the primary language. Gutierrez, who serves simultaneously as photographer, director, and subject throughout her practice, constructs an image that refuses easy categorization. The work belongs to a period when she was developing her signature method of embodying invented personas, collapsing the distance between self-portraiture and theatrical fabrication. Printed on Arches Baryta and mounted on Sintra, the archival inkjet medium lends the image a rich tonal depth and a photographic authority that rewards close looking, while the format, nearly a meter tall, gives the figure a commanding physical presence. The conceptual core of the work turns on gender as something performed, assembled, and ultimately unstable. Gutierrez, who grew up in Berkeley and trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, approaches identity not as a fixed state to be documented but as a terrain to be actively shaped and questioned. In Line Up 2, that interrogation is embedded in the visual structure itself, with the work resisting definitive readings and inviting the viewer to reconsider what they bring to the image. Her practice has since earned significant institutional recognition, including solo presentations at the Boston University Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, affirming the critical seriousness with which her early photographs are now regarded. This work is signed by the artist and offered unframed, allowing the collector to present it according to their own aesthetic priorities. Prospective buyers should note that applicable New York sales tax will be added to the final bid amount.
- Medium
- Archival inkjet print on Arches Baryta mounted on Sintra
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
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