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Under the Sign of ScorpioPresented by Stux Gallery January 11, 2007- February 10, 2007Reception: January 11, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTracey Moffatt
“My Scorpio series pays tribute to a vast array of women. I’ve portrayed myself as Roseanne Barr, Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg; Hillary Rodham Clinton (to become the first American woman President); Marcia Langton and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (both Australian Aboriginal intellectuals and political activists and heroines to me); Tina Brown and Anna Wintour (brilliant English magazine editors); Fran Leibowitz (wit like no other); and Billie Jean King (the most alive tennis player ever) In my portraits I have tried to capture their spirit and likeness, but only “at a moment’s glance”. It is almost like the moment when you see a famous person in a restaurant. Everyone is craning their necks to get a glimpse, only to end up with a fleeting view of the back of the celebrity as they exit into the VIP room. I shot the photographs with a simple digital camera in my loft against a bed sheet curtain, and in my cramped awful bathroom. I then added the high-key supernatural colored landscape backgrounds to the images in Photoshop on my computer. Rather than a formal portrait, I wanted a very pop, almost comic book quality. I propose that all of these women are ‘pop figures’, they are a part of the landscape of popular western culture.”-Tracey Moffatt Tracey Moffatt has exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world with exhibitions at the California Museum of Photography, California, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, Leipziger Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany, The National Museum of Photography, Denmark, Fundacio `La Caixa', Barcelona, ICA, Boston, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Musee dArt Contemporain, France, Centre for Contemporary Arts, UK, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, International Center of Photography, New York.
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