Preview: NYC 1993 Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Major Exhibition Featuring Over Seventy-Five Artists Examines Works Made or Exhibited in New York City Twenty Years Ago
Cindy Sherman, born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, NJ, currently resides and works in New York, NY. With a career spanning over four decades, Sherman’s groundbreaking work has continuously explored themes of representation and identity in contemporary media. Emerging in the late 1970s as part of the influential Pictures Generation alongside artists like Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Louise Lawler, Sherman initially delved into photography during her studies at Buffalo State College in the early 1970s.
In 1977, upon her move to New York City, Sherman embarked on her acclaimed Untitled Film Stills series, marking the beginning of her artistic journey. Over the years, she has consistently deconstructed and reconstructed familiar personas, often in unsettling ways. By the mid to late 1980s, Sherman’s visual language evolved to explore the more grotesque aspects of humanity through works like Fairy Tales (1985) and Disasters (1986-89). These highly visceral images incorporated visible prostheses and mannequins, a theme later extended in series like Sex Pictures (1992), adding layers of artifice to her constructed female identities.
Sherman’s renowned History Portraits, initiated in 1988, utilized theatrical effects to challenge rather than maintain any sense of illusion. Since the early 2000s, she has incorporated digital technology to manipulate her characters further. Notable series like Clown (2003) introduced psychedelic backdrops, exploring the contrast between exterior personas and interior psychology. Society Portraits (2008) employed green screens to create elaborate environments for women of high societal standing, emphasizing the veneer-like charm and societal status in the face of aging.
In her Flappers series from 2016, Sherman confronts the vulnerability of aging, portraying 1920s Hollywood starlets in glamorous attire from their prime with exaggerated makeup. Utilizing Instagram from 2017 onwards, Sherman shares portraits using face-altering apps, transforming herself into a variety of protagonists against kaleidoscopic settings. These disorienting and uncanny posts underscore the dissociative nature of Instagram from reality. Explore Cindy Sherman’s diverse and thought-provoking body of work, capturing the essence of identity and societal perceptions over the years.
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Major Exhibition Featuring Over Seventy-Five Artists Examines Works Made or Exhibited in New York City Twenty Years Ago
7 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The photo is a statement about the ‘mutability of “modern identity’.
5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The Glam era of the early 1970s is to be critically evaluated for the first time in an ambitious new exhibition at Tate Liverpool.
18 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
8 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Following the success of 2010’s critically acclaimed group exhibition Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures, which attracted over 4,000 visitors during the Frieze Art Fair, All Visual Arts is pleased to announce its upcoming autumn exhibition, Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being.
14 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Cindy Sherman, a traveling retrospective of one of the most significant contemporary artists and arguably the most influential one working exclusively with photography.
27 February 2012 • Mark Westall
The sale will feature highlights from Dan Colen, Tauba Auerbach, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst and Steven Parrino.
4 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Image:Francois Pinault (R), chief of the French multinational holding company PPR, and American artist Jeff Koons (L) pose for a… Read More
3 April 2011 • Mark Westall
Spotted this in today’s Observer Newspaper great Action Figures of your favourite Artists – Banksy, Jeff Koons, Murakami, Damien Hirst… Read More
11 January 2011 • Mark Westall
Image:Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 2010Courtesy the Artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin London For this show Sherman has assembled a cast of… Read More
1 July 2010 • Mark Westall
Image:Jeff koons Every year Basel art fair kicks off early with a major contemporary artist in conversation. Last tear kicked… Read More
15 April 2009 • Mark Westall
Sprüth Magers London is delighted to present Cindy Sherman’s first UK exhibition since 2007. The colour photographs assembled are selected… Read More
19 March 2009 • Mark Westall
Hanging Heart (Red/Gold), 1994–2006 High chromium stainless steel with transparent colour coating 291 x 280 x 101.5 cm© Jeff Koons… Read More
19 February 2009 • Mark Westall
Untitled #465, 2008 Color photograph 163,8 x 147,3 cm Sprüth Magers Berlin is delighted to present Cindy Sherman’s first exhibition… Read More