ART PORTFOLIO OF VELVET BRANDY LEMAE
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Spurred by my fantasies of being a girly girl, this work pays homage to the idealized and stylized females of the 1930s. Always a fan of the Varga Girl and Bunny Yeager’s photos of Bettie Page, I have been examining my own notions of beauty and sexuality for years. I shot may self-portraits in pinup girl poses as part of that exploration. In “Girls, Girls, Girls” I took commercial messages and edited them to investigate how innocent words and phrases can become sexualized in conjunction with the female image.
medium | matte acrylic on board
date | 1998
price | $600 each
size | 24 x 24