Joyce Neimanas
Shadows

Shadows
Shadows
Shadows
ArtistAmerican, born 1944
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Shadows
Date1996
PlaceUnited States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsOverall: 38 5/16 × 33 7/8 in. (97.3 × 86 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of the marriage of Kathleen James and Gary Rutherford
Object number97.1
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Joyce Neimanas’s artistic experimentations stretch well beyond the confines of any one medium. Using advertisements, art reproductions, photographs, painting, and comic books, Neimanas creates humorous collages that explore contemporary gender roles. Shadows is made up of 12 individual scenes. In each one, a female protagonist is terrorized either by the dark form of her own shadow or the specter of another character. Neimanas’s work gives form to a host of anxieties that arise from being a woman in the world.


ProvenanceThe artist, Albuquerque, New Mexico; purchased by MFAH, 1997.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: Photo Forum 1996, October 29 thru December 8, 1996, MFAH

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The work is signed and dated in pencil, lower left corner: "Shadows 4/6 1996/J. Neimanas" and embossed.

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