Cindy Sherman

CRG Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Cindy Sherman, July - October 1987, no. 9, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills, June - September 1997, pp. 26-27, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; Bordeaux, Musée d'Art Contemporain; Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, February 1998 - January 2000, no. 10, p. 60, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Peter Schjeldahl and I. Michael Danoff, Cindy Sherman, New York, 1984, no. 9, illustrated
Arthur C. Danto, Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills, Munich, 1990, no. 9, illustrated
Gunilla Knape, The Hasselblad Award 1999, Cindy Sherman, Skövde, Sweden, 2000, p. 45, illustrated

This work appears in very good condition overall. There is evidence of very light wear and handling at the corners and edges of the sheet. The sheet is hinged verso to the matte in two places along the upper edge. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Sherman began her groundbreaking project of self-portraits, Untitled Film Stills, which catapulted her to international fame. Lisa Phillips describes how Sherman's Untitled Film Stills wowed gallery audiences, "Sherman is the first artist working in the photographic medium to have fully infiltrated the "other" art world of painting and sculpture, and as such has forced us to reexamine our own categorical prejudices and preconceptions about photography. She has accomplished what photographers have been pursuing for a century—true parity with the other two arts."

The black and white images of the Untitled Film Stills evoke hollywood glamour while simultaneously confronting and reimagining the tropes of modern photography. In an interview with Betsy Sussler, Sherman discusses the role of acting within her work, "I never thought I was acting. When I became involved with close-ups I needed more information in the expression. I wanted the story to come from the face. Somehow the acting just happened...When I see what I want, my intuition takes over—both in the 'acting' and in the editing. Seeing that other person that's up there, that's what I want. It's like magic." Untitled Film Still #10, one of the first in its accalimed series, depicts a quintessential 1970s young woman in exaggerated eyeliner and a graphic skirt; her groceries have fallen to the ground and her facial expression is of undeniable frustration. With this image, Sherman confirms that not only is she a brilliant actress and costume designer, but an artist able to recreate and comment upon daily life seamlessly.