Karan Patel
Art & Women
Professor Cacoilo
Cindy Sherman is a female artist that was born on January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey where she was the youngest out of her five siblings. Shortly after her birth, her family had moved to Huntington, Long Island. Unlike many artists, her parents did not come from an artistic background (her father was an engineer and mother was a reading teacher). Sherman did not discover her artistic interest until college where she first set out to study painting. However, she eventually felt unfulfilled with holding a brush, feeling too many limitations of the expressions paintings in anything beyond a visceral way and so decided to pick up a camera.
Her most famous work "Untitled Film Stills" consists of a collection of photographs she takes of herself, putting herself in multiple roles of 20th century female clichés such as the housewife, the woman in distress, the prostitute, etc. Sherman leaves her photos open-ended which in turn leaves most of the interpretation to the critic/viewer of her artwork.
Untitled #35
This photograph she took of herself dressed as a housewife is only one of the many photos in her collection that could be interpreted in anyway possible.https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/sherman/jpgs/sherman35.jpg
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/collection_images/3/369.1986%23%23S.jpg
http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml
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