Gillian Wearing

September 22, 2015 8:46 PM

Gillian Wearing herself. Gillian wearing Warhol. Gillian wearing many faces, one of the ten most important artists today.

via The New Shelton

posted by the man of twists and turns (7 comments total)

Some of her masks are less convincing.
posted by Segundus at 9:38 PM on September 22, 2015

Maybe if you have to have it (art) explained then you don't deserve to enjoy it, but the website presentation and the FPP both leave me baffled, and reluctant to put the effort into figuring it out.

The artist's bio is definitely interesting. I wonder what OBE means. (it means Overcome By Events around these parts)

hmmm
posted by sidereal at 4:22 AM on September 23, 2015

I wonder what OBE means.

Googling tells me that it's either Out of Body Experience or Order of the British Empire.
posted by octothorpe at 4:38 AM on September 23, 2015 [1 favorite]

Art the doesn't look like crap on the Internet pretty much always looks like crap in real life, and vice versa.
This is a case in point.
posted by From Bklyn at 5:38 AM on September 23, 2015

Kinda reminds me of another photographer.
posted by Flashman at 5:56 AM on September 23, 2015

If this is one of the 10 most important artists, then art would have lost nearly all importance.

Basically Cindy Sherman.
posted by knoyers at 11:04 AM on September 23, 2015

If this is one of the 10 most important artists, then art would have lost nearly all importance.

Basically Cindy Sherman.

Yeah, no.

And "basically a genius of our time" isn't much of a put-down.
posted by IAmBroom at 12:39 PM on September 23, 2015