Untitled

Date2000

Maker Malerie Marder American, born 1971

Label TextMalerie 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.

Object number2002.28

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, 2003Published ReferencesYoung, Tara, "SAM Collects: ContemporaryArtProject" 2002, Seattle Art Museum, 2002, pg. 39

Credit LineGift of the ContemporaryArtProject, Seattle

Dimensions49 x 61 in. (124.5 x 154.9 cm)

MediumChromogenic print