Lissa Rivera
Boudoir

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Artist Lissa Rivera(American, born 1984)American, born 1984

CultureAmerican

Titles

Boudoir
from the series Beautiful Boy

Date2015

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 20 × 30 1/16 in. (50.8 × 76.3 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 32 1/16 in. (56 × 81.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Anne Levy Charitable Trust

Object number2017.428

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn
Lissa Rivera’s tender and glamorous portraits of her then friend, now partner
BJ Lillis, photographer and subject reject stigma and shame, choosing instead
to create confessional images that explore gender expression and intimacy. One
evening in 2014, Lillis told Rivera that though he had dressed in women’s clothes
in college, publicly presenting as feminine was now complicated by the
expectations of his office job. Emerging from conversations about struggles
with gender, Beautiful Boy became a platform for artist and muse to
celebrate the intricacies of identity and femininity.
ProvenanceThe artist, Brooklyn; [ClampArt, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
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