Joy Gregory, born 1959, British, Boxed edition of "Autoportrait", 2006
- Title:
- Boxed edition of "Autoportrait"
- Date:
- 2006
- Materials & Techniques:
- 9 giclée prints on medium, smooth, white cotton rag paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 × 5 inches (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated on verso in graphite: "Joy Gregory | 2006"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2008.8.1V
- Classification:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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The photographer Joy Gregory was born in Britain to Jamaican parents. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and has exhibited internationally, including in Cape Town, South Africa, where she first showed her series Lost Histories, which reflected on colonization and its effects on culture and self-image. Gregory's practice constitutes a penetrating investigation of issues of race, gender, and personal and cultural identity, while her visual language, as she has noted, "resides within a traditional aesthetic of truth and beauty." The artist has an eclectic technical repertoire, ranging from Victorian print processes to digital imaging. First published in 1990, Autoportrait originally consisted of a series of self-portrait silver prints that existed only in an edition of two, but Gregory recently had the original photographs scanned and the portfolio was republished in 2006 as a series of glicée prints. Charles Guice, Los Angeles Gallery label for Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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