Loretta Lux
Isabella

Isabella

© Loretta Lux, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Isabella
Isabella
ArtistGerman, born 1969
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Isabella
Date2001
MediumSilver dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 9 × 9 in. (22.9 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 11 13/16 in. (30.2 × 30 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery
Object number2003.800
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionLux combines photography, painting, and digital manipulation to create portraits of childhood with an eerie, dreamlike quality. While the portraits mimic early Netherlandish and Renaissance paintings, the figures—with stark, impassive expressions—seem almost spectral, neither here nor there, neither true subjects nor digital simulations. A painter by training, Lux traded her oils and brushes for pixels and a mouse. She spends up to a year working the entire surface of an image, replacing the background with a quiet, simple setting constructed from her own stock of photos and paintings.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 19 June - 8 September, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
In pencil verso lower right: "Isabella / Printer's Proof"
Signed and dated in pencil verso lower right: "Loretta Lux 2001"

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