Wendy Given is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon.
Are your pictures closer to documents or myths?
My pictures are a type of becoming—past and future combined, both chronicle and tradition. What has happened and what can be. Photography is quite…
Thank you so very much for the awesome blog interview Don/Dean! wg
Female Kifwebe Mask
- Culture: Songye
- Medium: Wood, pigment
- Place Made: Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Dates: late 19th
- Brooklyn Museum
- Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Workshop, German, 1472-1553
- Medium: Oil on panel mounted on canvas fixed to masonite
- Place Made: Europe
- Dates: 1526-1537
- Brooklyn Museum
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photo: Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, TOILETPAPER magazine
I’m honored that my work is included in this article with an amazing lineup of images on the New York Times Magazine blog. Click to see!