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Untitled #87 (Blue Shirt/Red Blanket)

Untitled #87 (Blue Shirt/Red Blanket)

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1954)
Date1981
MediumType "C" color photograph
DimensionsOverall: 24 × 48 in. (61 × 121.9 cm)
Frame: 32 3/4 × 57 × 1 1/2 in. (83.2 × 144.8 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineFund for Photography in honor of Ellen H. Johnson
Edition10/10
Object number1982.73
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Cindy Sherman / Hauser & WirthMore Information
In continuously photographing her own image, Cindy Sherman has refashioned conceptual undercurrents of performance and body art into increasingly powerful visual critiques. This image derives from Sherman’s 1981 series of “Centerfolds” in which she presents herself in the close-cropped, horizontal format of a men’s magazine spread. The viewer adopts the vantage point of the implied male gaze, looming over the female subject huddled vulnerably on the floor. A raking light from the left heightens the cinematic drama of the scene.
Exhibition History
Elderhostel Display
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (June 1, 1986 - June 30, 1986 )
Facing the Camera: Selected Portrait Photographs from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 21, 1995 - March 9, 1995 )
Subjects of Desire: Issues in Contemporary Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 7, 1997 - March 9, 1997 )
Framed and Shot: Photographs from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 1, 2000 - May 30, 2000 )
Modern Art in America: 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 15, 2003 - September 2, 2004 )
Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 22, 2008 - September 13, 2008 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - May 26, 2013 )
Do It Again: Repetition as Artistic Strategy, 1945 to Now
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 2020 - July 2, 2021 )
Femme 'n isms, Part I: Bodies are Fluid
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 3, 2023 - August 6, 2023 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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