The tra­di­tion of the artist’s por­trait or self-por­trait, in which artists are seen pos­ing with their work, goes back many cen­turies. Bran­cusi set the stan­dard for mod­ern artists in the many stu­dio self-por­traits he cre­ated in the early twen­ti­eth cen­tury. Artist por­trai­ture seemed to fol­low a set of con­ven­tions es­tab­lished by Bran­cusi, with artists fre­quently pho­tographed in stan­dard poses such as “through the hole”, “artist work­ing”, “cradling the sculp­ture”, or sim­ply “in­tense con­cen­tra­tion”. The Sculp­ture-Props seen in the pho­tographs were cre­ated us­ing poly­mer-coated poly­styrene.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: 5 prints, in­stal­la­tion view, Sculp­ture Por­traits poster, Prop Sculp­tures