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Real Isn't How You Are Made, Said the Skin Horse. It's Something That Happens to You. Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 56 W x 78 H x 2.3 D in
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Her face intentionally unfocused to reflect identity as allusive, this conceptual piece was painted for my exhibition, Object Lessons. The connect the dots painting takes its title from the storybook, The Velveteen Rabbit. Becoming an object of desire can have an unwelcome end as we pass through puberty. I wanted to be "me" and was intimidated by the women I observed in advertisements. Unaware that humans communicate as objects, I resisted. It took some time before I realized I was deeply fascinated with the commercial language I'd rejected. Semiotics, which explains how signs (as in symbols) are read and interpreted was also helpful in understanding the nature of how we communicate visually. Most of all, psychoanalysis revealed to me how identity is pieced together. Who I am can still feel confounding. And as simple as a connect the dots exercise in a coloring book.
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Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:56 W x 78 H x 2.3 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Denise Prince is an Austin-based, American artist working in a variety of media including film, photography, and performance. Influenced by critical theory at CalArts in Los Angeles, she has worked closely with clinical philosopher and psychoanalyst Charles Merward since 2007. Prince is known for using the visual syntax of fashion and style photography to explore experience in relation to Desire (the memory of the missing thing). Her work has been clarified, confronted, and interpreted by psychoanalyst members of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, has been exhibited internationally and has been featured on PBS Television and in Vogue Magazine.
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