Self-portrait
Artist
Ellen Carey
(American, born 1952)
Date1985
MediumPolaroid print
DimensionsOverall: 24 × 20 3/4 inches (60.96 × 52.71 cm)
Credit LineGift of Stephen Frailey and Mary Ehni
Object numberF91-11
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Terms
Photographs from the Permanent Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 8 – September 19, 1993, no cat.
Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 24, 2010 – January 2, 2011, no cat.
Ellen Carey has long been motivated by ideas of process, abstraction and color. Informed by her knowledge of art history and the science of perception, her varied work includes hand-painted photographs, 20 x 24-inch Polaroid self portraits, cameraless photograms and a recent group of non-objective Polaroid Pulls. The work presented here is from a 1984-87 series, in which self-portraits are overlaid with boldly colored geometric patterns. Saturated, luminous and vibrant, these works stand as monumental emblems of the medium's kaleidoscopic possibilities.
Copyright© Ellen Carey
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