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Article: Demotic art of Gillian Wearing.
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- Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Gillian Wearing has a demotic touch. Until recently, her art using photography and video has been characterized by an awkward immediacy, however much technical artfulness may have gone into its achievement. It has kept close to the life of the street, and to the everyday lives of people who do not normally provide the audience for art. Wearing finished her studies at Goldsmiths' College in 1990, and hair first one-person exhibition at the London artist-run space City Racing in 1993 -- titled "I'm Desperate" after a message held up by a young executive in her now famous series of photographs. It also included Take Your Top Off (1993) photos taken by Wearing of herself in ...
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Article: Gillian Wearing, private I: in her first U.S. ...
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...A big photographic Self-Portrait (2000) introduced a wonderful survey of Gillian Wearing's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, but she's not giving much away: her face is almost completely concealed ...
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