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Shironuri: Transforming a Single Face Opening Reception

Exhibition Overview

Katherine Radcliffe, a professional artist, was inspired to collaborate with Helen Moss during a time when Helen was studying classical Japanese dance. Katherine, fascinated by how completely shironuri (traditional stage makeup) transforms a face, asked Helen to model for photographs so that Katherine could capture the dramatic changes as they were happening.

Not content to simply document standard, more familiar character changes, Katherine posed Helen in compositions varying from meditative, reverse image kaleidoscopic manipulations, multiple faces of the same pose in different sizes, with a focus on the flexibility of gender roles unique to classical Japanese dance.

All of the photographs in the exhibit were taken before the advent of digital photography, and so were hand cut to create mixed media collages.

Location: RESOBOX East Village :
91 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10003 (Map)

Find out more at http://resobox.com/exhibition/shironuri-transforming-a-single-face/

Free!











When: Thu., Apr. 12, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Exhibition Overview

Katherine Radcliffe, a professional artist, was inspired to collaborate with Helen Moss during a time when Helen was studying classical Japanese dance. Katherine, fascinated by how completely shironuri (traditional stage makeup) transforms a face, asked Helen to model for photographs so that Katherine could capture the dramatic changes as they were happening.

Not content to simply document standard, more familiar character changes, Katherine posed Helen in compositions varying from meditative, reverse image kaleidoscopic manipulations, multiple faces of the same pose in different sizes, with a focus on the flexibility of gender roles unique to classical Japanese dance.

All of the photographs in the exhibit were taken before the advent of digital photography, and so were hand cut to create mixed media collages.

Location: RESOBOX East Village :
91 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10003 (Map)

Find out more at http://resobox.com/exhibition/shironuri-transforming-a-single-face/

Free!

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