Laura Aguilar
Nature Self Portrait #7

Nature Self Portrait #7

© 1996 Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016

Nature Self Portrait #7
Nature Self Portrait #7
ArtistAmerican, 1959–2018
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Nature Self Portrait #7
Date1996
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 1/16 × 18 15/16 in. (38.3 × 48.1 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.5 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Kerry Inman, Joan Morgenstern, Anne Wilkes Tucker, and Morris Weiner
Object number2019.225
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Although she created work based on her identity, Laura Aguilar felt strongly that her photographs were not strictly self-portraits but rather challenges to prevailing ideologies. Her Nature Self-Portraits, begun in the mid-1990s, present the artist’s own nude body amid the rocky landscape of Southern California’s Inland Empire. Aguilar’s work questions notions of beauty, the tradition of the female body being likened to a landscape, the absence of Brown and big bodies in art, and the nationalist traditions embedded in the American landscape.


ProvenanceLaura Aguilar Trust, Los Angeles; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, verso, center: Laura Aguilar 1996 // 9/10
Signed in pencil, verso, center: Laura Aguilar

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