Untitled, Divinity

Date2000

Maker Catherine Opie American, born 1961

Label TextOpie 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.

Object number2000.114

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.

Credit LineGift of the Collectors' Forum

Dimensions103 x 43 in. (261.6 x 109.2 cm)

MediumPhotograph