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True Saints: Judas

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1941)
Date1980–84
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/8 × 13 9/16 in. (33.3 × 34.4 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (50.6 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Endowment Fund
PortfolioTrue Saints
Object number1984.47.4
Status
On view
Copyright© Holly WrightMore Information
After a brief career in acting—following in the footsteps of her mother, stage actress Jeannette Nolan—Holly Wright pursued a degree in English from UCLA and graduate studies in photography at the University of Iowa. Wright’s photographs are highly personal and psychologically probing. Her series "True Saints" features intimate portrayals of individuals posing as modern-dress versions of biblical characters. The idea of performance is central to Wright’s photographic stagings: “My particular interest is role playing and self-images, what is real and what is authentic faking.”
Exhibition History
Facing America: Portraits of the People and the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 18, 2006 - December 17, 2006 )
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - May 26, 2013 )
The Body, The Host: HIV / AIDS and Christianity
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 20, 2024 - December 15, 2024 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
  • On View