I Make Up the Image of My Perfection/ I Make Up the Image of My Deformity

Art © Martha Wilson/Photo © Alan Comfort. Not for reproduction or publication.

Art © Martha Wilson/Photo © Alan Comfort

I Make Up the Image of My Perfection/ I Make Up the Image of My Deformity

Date2007

Artist Martha Wilson (American artist and museum administrator, born 1947)

Printer/Printmaker Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions

MediumDigital print

Dimensions12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Danielle Rice in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt and Sylvia Sleigh, 2010

Object number2010-30.20

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ClassificationsPRINT

Label TextMartha Wilson is an important feminist performance artist and founder of the New York non-profit space, Franklin Furnace, which has supported projects by artists such as Jenny Holzer, William Wegman, and Barbara Kruger. Within her own work, Wilson explores the construction of identity by altering her own appearance. Her documentation of this process is a means through which to understand physical and cultural limitations in the formation of identity.

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