Rose Art Museum In Conversation: Catherine Opie

Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University

In Conversation: Catherine Opie

Celebrated for her powerful and dynamic photographs documenting members of vibrant subcultures, Catherine Opie has long been searching for what she describes as “that fine art Americana image.” This search led to collaboration with Ron Athey and the creation of her “Trojan Whore” series. This series of monumental large-format Polaroid portraits captured Athey’s performance work, which explored desire, sexuality, and trauma through BDSM and extreme body art, bringing Los Angeles’ underground queer scene to the mainstream.
Join Opie, in conversation with Tom King, Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University, for a discussion of her collaboration with Athey, her interest in probing Americans’ culturally constructed identities, her artistic practice, and explorations of queer communities.
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