Catherine Opie

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Russell and Robert meet Catherine Opie (b. 1961, Sandusky, OH; lives in Los Angeles), known for her powerfully dynamic photography that examines the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American dream and American identity. She first gained recognition in the 1990s for her series of studio portraits titled Being and Having, in which she photographed gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals drawn from her circle of friends and artists. Opie has traveled extensively across the country exploring the diversity of America’s communities and landscapes, documenting quintessential American subjects— high school football players and the 2008 presidential inauguration—while also continuing to display America’s subcultures through formal portraits. Using dramatic staging, Opie presents cross-dressers, same-sex couples, and tattooed, scarred, and pierced bodies in intimate photographs that evoke traditional Renaissance portraiture—images of power and respect. In her portraits and landscapes, Opie establishes a level of ambiguity—of identity and place—by exaggerating masculine or feminine characteristics, or by exaggerating the distance of the shot, cropping, or blurring her landscapes.

This special episode was recorded on 9th September 2020. Follow Cathy's artworks on Instagram @csopie and visit Cathy's gallery https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/catherine-opie. Special thanks to Sarah and Alejandro at @LehmannMaupin gallery, New York.

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0:57.0	Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world, I am Russell Tovey
1:06.2	and I'm Robert Diamend. And this is Talkart. Welcome to Talkart.
1:11.0	How are you, Rob? Today I am feeling like an individual and I think I'm the kind of person that ever since I was a young child I've had very strong individual kind of streaks where I just couldn't really resist but be myself in a
1:25.1	very loud performative kind of way but I've been thinking a lot this week about
1:30.1	the individual in relation to society but also the individual in terms of like your own community and how that we can't really function on our own unless we do have our friends and loved ones and also a kind of wider community of people that we might not know but people that we identify with.
1:47.6	And there's an artist who I have loved for many, many years now who we have the great privilege of speaking to you today all the way from Los Angeles and a number of years ago my friend Emma Reeves took me to the opening it was all very fancy and kind of like very glamorous because we were in Los Angeles at Moca and I went to
2:04.0	Catherine our guests incredible show 700 Neems Road which was based on the
2:09.2	interior spaces and homes of Elizabeth Taylor and it was a really incredible exhibition and it was actually the first
2:16.7	kind of major solo exhibition and it was across I think there were maybe three
2:20.5	exhibitions in total on at the same time and I got to see them while I was in
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