Catherine Opie
Self-Portrait/Cutting1993

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Artist or Maker: Catherine Opie
United States, Ohio, Sandusky, born 1961, active Los Angeles
Title: Self-Portrait/Cutting
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1993
Medium: Dye coupler print
Dimensions: Image: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm) Frame: 43 × 33 × 2 in. (109.22 × 83.82 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number: AC1997.24.1
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: Los Angeles–based artist Catherine Opie made this unflinching self-portrait as part of a series documenting the gay and lesbian S and M community. A crude image of two girls holding hands in front of a house, scratched into Opie’s back, represents the wish for a spouse of her choice and the "traditional" desires of home and family. By using a certain solemnity and formality borrowed from historical studio portraiture, Opie upends the norms of identity and sexuality.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.
Irmas, Deborah. This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.

Not on view

No image

Artist or Maker: Catherine Opie
United States, Ohio, Sandusky, born 1961, active Los Angeles
Title: Self-Portrait/Cutting
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1993
Medium: Dye coupler print
Dimensions: Image: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm) Frame: 43 × 33 × 2 in. (109.22 × 83.82 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number: AC1997.24.1
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: Los Angeles–based artist Catherine Opie made this unflinching self-portrait as part of a series documenting the gay and lesbian S and M community. A crude image of two girls holding hands in front of a house, scratched into Opie’s back, represents the wish for a spouse of her choice and the "traditional" desires of home and family. By using a certain solemnity and formality borrowed from historical studio portraiture, Opie upends the norms of identity and sexuality.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.
Irmas, Deborah. This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.