Butch Wax

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Butch Wax

1990

Neil Winokur (American, born 1945)

Neil Winokur is both present in and absent from this brightly colored, multipart self-portrait. The title of the series suggests the ensemble is autobiographical, and the artist’s face appears in three of the pictures, but we do not know exactly how photographs of isolated objects connect to tell a larger story. While Winokur’s use of a standardized point of view and color-saturated backdrops makes his activity in the studio evident, it gives little insight into his emotions.

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Object Details

Title:

Butch Wax
From the series Self-Portrait

Date:

1990

Artist:

Neil Winokur (American, born 1945)

Medium:

Dye destruction print

Dimensions:

Sheet: 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Hunt Corporation (formerly Hunt Manufacturing Co.) Arts Collection Program, 1991

Accession Number:

1991-149-6

Geography:

Photograph taken in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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