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    SUBMISSION: 3 Minute Street Sculpture  By George Valdez                                        Title Across the Street

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    3 Minute Street Sculpture  By George Valdez                                        Title Across the Street

    Posted on Friday, July 13th 2012

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    Juxtapoz Magazine’s write-up of our Cindy Sherman exhibition brings up interesting questions concerning Sherman’s work. Excerpt: Sherman recently told art critic Kenneth Baker “For the longest time, up until a couple of years ago, I was trying to lose myself in the work, literally and figuratively, so that I would never be recognized. Not just that it wouldn’t look like me but that it wouldn’t look like any of the other characters I’d done before. Just a few years ago, relaxing about that and not feeling this pressure to hide kind of freed me up.” A visit to Sherman’s exhibition at SFMOMA shows that the question in my head, “Who is the real Cindy Sherman?”, is irrelevant but inevitable, and perhaps I really should we asking, “Who do we want to be today?”  Read the full article here.

    Juxtapoz Magazine’s write-up of our Cindy Sherman exhibition brings up interesting questions concerning Sherman’s work.

    Excerpt:

    Sherman recently told art critic Kenneth Baker “For the longest time, up until a couple of years ago, I was trying to lose myself in the work, literally and figuratively, so that I would never be recognized. Not just that it wouldn’t look like me but that it wouldn’t look like any of the other characters I’d done before. Just a few years ago, relaxing about that and not feeling this pressure to hide kind of freed me up.” A visit to Sherman’s exhibition at SFMOMA shows that the question in my head, “Who is the real Cindy Sherman?”, is irrelevant but inevitable, and perhaps I really should we asking, “Who do we want to be today?” 

    Read the full article here.

    Posted on Friday, July 13th 2012

    Tags cindy sherman sfmoma exhibition photography modern art art