CHOOSE ARTIST
Robert Breer, Paul Chan, Martha Colburn, Thomas Demand, Edison Manufacturing Company, Fleischer Studios, Brent Green, George Griffin, Ezra Johnson, Bill T. Jones and OpenEnded Group, William Kentridge, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Laleh Khorramian, Maria Lassnig, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Joshua Mosley, Oscar Muñoz, Jacco Olivier, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Pruitt, Christine Rebet, Mary Reid Kelley, Lotte Reiniger, Robin Rhode, Hiraki Sawa, Berni Searle, Cindy Sherman, Federico Solmi, Dziga Vertov, Kara Walker
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- Cindy Sherman
- Doll Clothes, 1975
- 16mm film transferred to DVD; 2 minutes 22 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
ABOUT THIS WORK
Doll Clothes, the only stop-motion animation by Cindy Sherman, explores the construction of female identity. A paper doll, made in the likeness of the artist, peruses the fashion choices, labeled such as “casual” or “outdoors,” available to her in an old-fashioned set. When the doll arrives at “dresses,” she chooses an outfit and prances about the vanity, admiring herself in a make-up mirror. Her fun is spoiled when human hands pluck her up and put her back into her place within the paper doll set.
ABOUT CINDY SHERMAN
Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. In 1976, Sherman received a BA from State University College in Buffalo, New York. Known foremost as a photographer, Sherman’s body of work comprises staged photographs in which she dons a myriad of costumes, embodying characters whose stories are left untold. Solo exhibitions of Sherman’s work have been mounted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Center; and the Basel Kunsthalle in Switzerland. Sherman has received numerous awards throughout her career including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award in 2003 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995. She lives and works in New York.