Untitled, Divinity

2000

American, born 1961

Opie is a Los Angeles based photographer best known for her color portraits of social subcultures, including piercing enthusiasts, leather fetishists, and the transgendered. This is a continuation of that body of work, but here Opie utilizes the world's largest Polaroid camera, which she used for a series of thirteen works. The performance artist Divinity (né Darryl Carlton) is her subject in this compelling portrait.

Photograph

103 x 43 in. (261.6 x 109.2 cm)

Gift of the Collectors' Forum

2000.114

Not currently on view

Resources

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

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, First Person Singular, May 31, 2001 - Mar. 17, 2002.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Dec. 22, 2022 - ongoing [on view beginning June 14, 2023].

Published ReferencesSeattle Art Museum: Bridging Cultures. London: Scala Publishers Ltd. for the Seattle Art Museum, 2007, p. 63, illus. p. 62.

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