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Tutorial (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Tutorial is a series of images in which the subject obsesses over the alteration of her face. By use of exaggerated, but common makeup techniques, these photographs examine the increasing expectations of women to comply with the insurmountable standards of modern beauty. These standards are compelling women to alter the shape and bone structure of their faces by using contouring makeup in order to conjure the illusion of a different face. With the subject's face filling the frame, the viewer is beckoned into the dichotomy of the natural face juxtaposed simultaneously to the edit. Questions of what is beauty and have beauty standards reached a point of the absurd arise via the visual hyperbole.
AUTHOR
Biography:
Sarah is a conceptual photographer whose works center around explorations of identity, existentialism, and metaphor. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from Northern Michigan University where she practiced design and photography informed by a study in Psychology.
Exhibitions:
"Just Looking" Group Show, Marquette Arts and Culture Center, February 2017
"North of the 45th", Group Show, DeVos Art Museum, June 2016.
"62 Point Perspective", Group Show, NMU School of Art & Design, April 2016.
"No BS or BFA Yet!", Group Show, Bonifas Arts Center, January 2015.
Sarah is a conceptual photographer whose works center around explorations of identity, existentialism, and metaphor. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from Northern Michigan University where she practiced design and photography informed by a study in Psychology.
Exhibitions:
"Just Looking" Group Show, Marquette Arts and Culture Center, February 2017
"North of the 45th", Group Show, DeVos Art Museum, June 2016.
"62 Point Perspective", Group Show, NMU School of Art & Design, April 2016.
"No BS or BFA Yet!", Group Show, Bonifas Arts Center, January 2015.
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