Catherine Opie: In and Around Home

Works In Progress

English - April 09, 2020 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB
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Home and domesticity have been themes of artist and photographer Catherine Opie's work for a long time. She made portraits of lesbians and their families in the series “Domestic,” captured scenes of family and community in the series “In and Around Home,” photographed Elizabeth Taylor’s home and possessions in “700 Nimes Road,” and in her recent series “The Modernist,” her friend and longtime subject Pig Pen appears to be running around LA and setting fire to famous modernist homes designed by John Lautner.

Opie spoke to Works In Progress about her explorations of home, and what being at home means to her now.