Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road
Saturday, Jan 23, 201611 AM — Sunday, May 8, 20165 PMEDT
| MOCA Pacific Design Center: 8687 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA, USRelated
Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road presents new and recent work by Los Angeles–based artist Catherine Opie, an essential figure in contemporary photography.
Taken over the course of six months at the Bel-Air, California, residence of the late actress Elizabeth Taylor, the exhibition’s photographs are drawn from two series: Closets and Jewels, and 700 Nimes Road. Inspired by William Eggleston’s images of Elvis Presley’s Memphis estate, Graceland, Opie creates a portrait of Taylor from her personal space and mementos. The artist photographs rooms, closets, shoes, clothing, and jewelry that depict an indirect, yet deeply intimate, portrait of a life defined by wealth and fame. In the artist’s words, the project is not about the relationship to celebrity but about “the relationship to what is human.”
More event info: moca.org/exhibition/catherine-opie-700-nimes-road
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