touring exhibitions

Stolen Identities

The question of identity and the relationship between self and others has been an important subject for modern and contemporary artists. The late Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, reflected on the meaning of personal identity in her honest, disturbing self-portraits, while her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera, used murals to investigate social and cultural and political identity. In Stolen Identities, contemporary photographers Sherry Karver, Nate Larson and Aline Smithson explore the issue of identity by examining the relationship between self and society.

Sherry Karver’s Grand Central Station series, reveals the dichotomy of the individual and collective society.

Nate Larson, also facilitates unique conversation between the observer and his Stories. Larson challenges our belief in paranormal activities, coincidental situations and possible truths.

Aline Smithson’s work, Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother, and People I Don’t Know, also illustrates the concept of identity in depicting relationships between people and pictures. In Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother, Smithson creatively connects her primary subject (85-year-old mother) with a secondary photo in the background through a series of costume changes.