Covered
Artist
Anna Shteynshleyger
(American, born Russia, 1977)
Date2007
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 31 9/16 × 40 inches (80.17 × 101.6 cm)
Sheet: 41 3/8 × 51 1/16 inches (105.09 × 129.7 cm)
Framed: 45 1/2 × 42 inches (115.57 × 106.68 cm)
Sheet: 41 3/8 × 51 1/16 inches (105.09 × 129.7 cm)
Framed: 45 1/2 × 42 inches (115.57 × 106.68 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2013.17.23
SignedSigned on artist's label (sent separately) in black pen "Anna Shteynshleyger"
InscribedWritten on artist's label, below signature, in black pen ""covered", 2007, Edition 3/5 / ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 3/5
On View
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DescriptionProfile image of a shirtless youth with right side of face obscured by long hair.Gallery LabelI want to make a work about biography, but I don’t really want to talk about myself. —Anna Shteynshleyger
Anna Shteynshleyger’s series City of Destiny focuses on the small Orthodox Jewish community in Des Plaines, Illinois, where she lived from 2003 to 2006. In this self-portrait, Shteynshleyger wears two of her sheitels, wigs worn by Orthodox married women to conform to the requirement of Jewish Law to cover their hair. “To function in the contemporary art world while being a practicing Jew is like being a spy,” notes Shteynshleyger. “You can’t reveal your true identity because you’d get laughed at in one world and excommunicated from the other.”
Purchased from the artist by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2013;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.
Copyright© Anna Shteynshleyger
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