Louis Lozowick This exhibition of approximately 75 works will probe the complex issues of understanding identity in the past century. Included in the exhibition are self portraits by Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Chuck Close, Larry Rivers, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold. While the works by these artists reveal traditional themes, including impersonation, reinvention, self-consciousness, vanity and the complex game of seeing a mirrored image, the exhibition will also explore how issues of identity and self-portrayal were bent in new directions in the 20th century as if refracted through a prism.
An illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of prints and drawings, is the exhibition curator.
"All self-portraits have the advantage of having an available model when and where you want him," Ivan Albright humorously noted. "Conversation can be held to a minimum." Despite the convenience, self-portrayal is rarely as simple as we might think. In most portraiture, we "meet" the subject indirectly through an intermediary -- the artist. In self-portraiture, it is just the two of us. We discount the mirror that might have been there. The face appears to confront us, the viewers, directly, and we expect some privileged revelation.
Self-portraiture in the twentieth century, furthermore, was transformed when advancements in sociology, psychology, genetics, philosophy, and other fields changed our understanding about the individual. One's "character," which once seemed fixed and controllable, was now subject to a variety of influences. Such notions affected self-portrayal. Artists investigated issues related to gender, race, age, health, or the body and struggled to integrate their multiple identities. The interest in self-portrayal continued t ...More...
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