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DESCRIPTION:Cindy Sherman has assumed countless roles over the course of h
 er 35-year career\, becoming recognized in the process as one of the most 
 important and influential figures in contemporary art. Mining a limitless 
 supply of images from movies\, TV\, magazines\, the Internet\, and art his
 tory\, she captures herself in an astounding range of guises and personas
 —from screen siren to clown to aging socialite—in work that is by turn
 s amusing and disturbing\, distasteful and affecting. Besides model and ph
 otographer\, she also acts as makeup artist\, hairdresser\, stylist\, and 
 wardrobe mistress\, working with an arsenal of wigs\, costumes\, prostheti
 cs\, and props in creating her work. The resulting images offer a sustaine
 d\, eloquent\, and provocative exploration of the construction of contempo
 rary identity and the nature of representation.\nFeaturing some 160 photog
 raphs\, the exhibition Cindy Sherman traces the artist’s career from the
  mid-1970s to the present and covers dominant themes such as artifice and 
 fiction\; cinema and performance\; gender and class\; horror and the grote
 sque\; and myth\, carnival\, and fairy tale. As her first retrospective in
  a US museum in 15 years\, the show features in-depth selections from her 
 key series\, including the groundbreaking "Untitled Film Stills" (1977–1
 980)\; the ornate history portraits (1988–1990)\; the larger-than-life s
 ociety portraits (2008)\; and an example from her newest series of photogr
 aphic murals (2010).\nA major catalogue accompanies the exhibition. \n\nCu
 rator: Eva Respini\, associate curator\, with Lucy Gallun\, curatorial ass
 istant\, The Museum of Modern Art\, New York \n\nWalker coordinating curat
 or: Siri Engberg
LOCATION:Target and Friedman Galleries\n
SUMMARY:Cindy Sherman
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URL:http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2012/cindy-sherman
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