Untitled

Artist Carrie Levy American, born 1979

Date2004

MediumChromogenic print

Dimensions(Mounted) 35 1/2 x 30 in. (90.2 x 76.2 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of the artist and Daniel Cooney Fine Art in honor of Allen G. Thomas Jr.

Object number2005.9

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In 2004 Carrie Levy completed a series called Domestic Stages focused on the human figure at home. Each color photograph in the group meditates on a nude figure in the subject's personal environment. As models Levy used friends and family members, normal people with normally imperfect bodies. The artist explains, "I am highlighting the real in order for the audience to see the strangeness of the ordinary body."

This work, like the others in the series, shows its subject undressed and facing away from the camera. Any identifying information is omitted, turning the figure into an object to be explored for form, color, and line, in a setting rendered as anonymous as its occupant. The photograph reveals much and little at the same time, leaving viewers with an unnamed portrait defined only by intimate bodily characteristics, the face that holds the key to personality withheld.
[L. Dougherty, 2005]ProvenanceCreated United States, 2004; collection of the artist; [Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York]; given to NCMA, 2005.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, "Carrie Levy," 2005. Object Rights Statement

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