Object Details
- Artist
- Robert Mapplethorpe, 4 Nov 1946 - 9 Mar 1989
- Sitter
- Cindy Sherman, born 19 Jan 1954
- Exhibition Label
- Born Glen Ridge, New Jersey
- By deftly combining performance art with photography, Cindy Sherman continues to create a highly imaginative and provocative body of work. She first drew notice for her Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), a series of black and white photographs that feature the artist in the guise of a B-movie actress. Throughout her subsequent work, Sherman has probed the nature of identity and representation by casting herself in multiple roles and transforming her appearance with the aid of wigs, makeup, prosthetics, costumes, props, and settings. Robert Mapplethorpe photographed Sherman in preparation for his book 50 New York Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in New York (1986). Sherman’s inclusion, alongside established artists such as Willem de Kooning and Louise Bourgeois, signaled her rising stature within a community of artists whose work came to define much of American art in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Nacida en Glen Ridge, Nueva Jersey
- Combinando con destreza el arte del performance y la fotografía, Cindy Sherman ha creado un conjunto de obras sumamente imaginativas y provocadoras. Se dio a conocer con Untitled Film Stills (Fotogramas sin título, 1977–80), una serie de fotos en blanco y negro donde posa al estilo de una actriz de películas clase B. En su trabajo subsiguiente ha explorado la noción de identidad y representación, asumiendo distintos roles para los que se transforma con pelucas, maquillaje, prótesis, disfraces, utilería y decorados. Robert Mapplethorpe fotografió a Sherman para su libro 50 artistas de Nueva York: Selección crítica de pintores y escultores activos en Nueva York (1986). La inclusión de Sherman junto a figuras establecidas, como Willem de Kooning y Louise Bourgeois, hace patente su ascenso dentro de una comunidad de artistas que definieron en gran medida el arte estadounidense en las décadas de 1970 y 1980.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1983
- Object number
- NPG.2016.17
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 48.6 × 38.6 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/16")
- Sheet: 50.5 × 40.3 cm (19 7/8 × 15 7/8")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Interior
- Costume\Outerwear\Coat\Jacket
- Cindy Sherman: Female
- Cindy Sherman: Arts and Culture\Visual Arts\Artist\Photographer
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2016.17
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm491f96ec2-df95-4d74-9a41-e9eaaf983444
