Catherine Opie - Wikipedia
WEBCatherine Sue Opie (born 1961) [1] is an American fine art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, [2] as a professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles. [3] [4] Opie studies the connections between mainstream and infrequent society.
Catherine Opie, All-American Subversive - The New Yorker
WEBMar 5, 2017 · In the course of a thirty-year career, the photographer Catherine Opie has made a study of the freeways of Los Angeles, lesbian families, surfers, Tea Party gatherings, America’s national parks...
'I Do Like To Stare': Catherine Opie On Her Portraits Of Modern
WEBFeb 3, 2016 · Opie is a stocky, affable presence with graying brown hair tucked under a black baseball cap. The 54-year-old has made it a lifelong project to document all kinds of American identities and...
Catherine Opie Biography – Catherine Opie on artnet
WEBCatherine Opie (American, b.1961) is acclaimed for her arresting portraits and landscapes, which examine notions of gender, sexuality, and the fabric of American communities in technically-refined works with rich color.
Catherine Opie: The provocateur who photographed Elizabeth …
WEBNov 2, 2015 · CNN — Self-portrait ‘Pervert’ was possibly Catherine Opie’s most angry piece. In the photograph, Opie sits, bare-chested, facing the camera with the word pervert slashed into her upper body. Her...
Finding a Lavender Thread Even in Catherine Opie’s Landscapes
WEBAug 18, 2021 · In a photo Catherine Opie made on the set of her black-and-white film “The Modernist,” in 2016, the transgender protagonist played by Pig Pen prepares to torch the iconic midcentury...
L.A. Story: Catherine Opie on Her Controversial Photographs of Los ...
WEBJan 22, 2016 · From the leather crowd to mini-malls, Catherine Opie trains her lens on the subcultures of Los Angeles. Sitting down at a table in the reception area of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary...
Catherine Opie - Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people’s attitudes and relationships to themselves and others, and the ways in which they occupy the landscape.
Catherine Opie’s Work Is More Urgent Now Than Ever
WEBOct 2, 2019 · After the 2016 presidential election, the artist Catherine Opie began cutting up magazines and collecting images of political import: photographs of guns, senators, baby seals on shrinking ice...
Catherine Opie’s photographs shine a spotlight on the marginalised
WEBMay 15, 2021 · Opie, who has lived in California for most of her life, turned 60 in April. Across almost four decades, her work has shifted between gender politics and a wider exploration of the American...