A new exhibition at ICPhotog puts the charmed and charged phenomenon of the artist portrait on display, featuring contributions from the artist-filmmaker Tacita Dean and the photographers Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie.
—are themselves accustomed to holding the reins of representation, which isn’t to say that they’re not game, at least for a moment, to let go. Though, in truth, the nuance and depth of the work on view speak more of engagement than of surrender.Photograph by Catherine Opie / Courtesy Regen Projects / Lehmann Maupin / Thomas Dane Gallery
The works, mostly large-scale, are arranged in close proximity—creating something like an imaginary meeting of the minds among likenesses—and underscored by wall-label texts that include quotations from the subjects reflecting on their own methods or self-conceptions, like thought bubbles. “Writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people . . .
Opie takes the opposite tack, isolating her figures, suspending them in mythic space—a voluptuous nowhere—to iconographic effect. Early in Opie’s career, before she turned to deep black, she depicted the characters of her queer orbit against colored backdrops, referencing European traditions of aristocratic portraiture and religious painting.
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