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Untitled

Untitled

2000

Malerie Marder

American, born 1971

Malerie Marder's photographs typically represent the artist, her family and friends, in contrived settings that are often overtly suggestive. Here the artist poses on the beach with her body's shape positioned to imitate the forms of the rocks behind her. Instead of modeling for the stereotyped male artist, this awkwardly staged contemporary "odalisque" has been created through the act of the artist posing and photographing herself.
Chromogenic print
49 x 61 in. (124.5 x 154.9 cm)
Gift of the ContemporaryArtProject, Seattle
2002.28
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Modern in America", July 8, 2004 - February 27, 2005

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "SAM Collects: ContemporaryArtProject", December 21, 2002 - April 6, 2003
Published ReferencesYoung, Tara, "SAM Collects: ContemporaryArtProject" 2002, Seattle Art Museum, 2002, pg. 39

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