Dorothea Tanning
in ‘She Models For Her’, The Shed, New York
19 June – 25 August 2019
Dorothea Tanning, Evening in Sedona, 1976. Courtesy: The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques, London; © Artists Rights Society, New York, and ADAGP, Paris
Dorothea Tanning is included in ‘She Models For Her’ at The Shed, New York, on public view from 19 June – 25 August 2019. Curated by Maryam Hoseini and Phoebe d’Heurleis, ‘She Models for Her’ is part of the inaugural exhibition, ‘Open Call’, at The Shed, New York. In ‘She Models For Her’, Hoseini and d’Heurle imagine a way of engaging with other artists across time by bringing together artworks by artists from today and past decades.
‘She Models For Her’ contextualises the work of Suzanne Valadon – a 19th-century French painter who began as a model and became one of the most famous female painters of her time – with work by Hoseini and d’Heurle and other historical and contemporary paintings, photographs, and sculptures from artists Emma Amos, Anne Cousineau, Zackary Drucker + A.L. Steiner, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Rosa Loy, Lucas Samaras, Diane Simpson, and Dorothea Tanning. In juxtaposing these works, ‘She Models For Her’ explores the complex entanglements between representational art and daily life.