Now at the Guggenheim: Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
There is a very interesting exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum that I think you might want to see. It’s on until April 4. It’s called Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks. It’s multi-media comprising paintings, videos, sculptures.
Wearing’s profoundly empathetic and psychologically intense work probes the tension between the self and society in an increasingly media- saturated world. Over her three-decade career, she has focused equally on her own self-portraiture and others’ depictions. Testing the boundaries between the private and public, questioning fixed ideas on identity and anticipating the cultural transformations wrought by social media. In her work masks serve as both protection and as a metaphor for the performance each of us stages as individuals.
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Cheryl Benton, aka the “head tomato” is founder and publisher of The Three Tomatoes, a digital lifestyle magazine for “women who aren’t kids”. Having lived and worked for many years in New York City, the land of size zero twenty-somethings, she was truly starting to feel like an invisible woman. She created The Three Tomatoes just for the fun of it as the antidote for invisibility and sent it to 60 friends. Today she has thousands of friends and is chief cheerleader for smart, savvy women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage. She is the author of the novel, "Can You See Us Now?" and co-author of a humorous books of quips, "Martini Wisdom." Because she's lived a long time, her full bio won't fit here. If you want the "blah, blah, blah", read more. www.thethreetomatoes.com/about-the-head-tomato
