Lucas Samaras

Untitled (Head-Chest Liquid)
2003

A digitally manipulated monochrome image featuring a man with a disheveled beard and hair, with parts of the image, including the man's figure, distorted as if reflected in a funhouse mirror. The man appears contemplative, and there's a smaller, similarly distorted image of the same man within the larger distortion, creating a surreal, recursive visual effect.

A digitally manipulated monochrome image featuring a man with a disheveled beard and hair, with parts of the image, including the man's figure, distorted as if reflected in a funhouse mirror. The man appears contemplative, and there's a smaller, similarly distorted image of the same man within the larger distortion, creating a surreal, recursive visual effect.

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Date
2003

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Inkjet print

Dimensions
Sheet: 29 × 23 1/2in. (73.7 × 59.7 cm) Image: 27 × 21 1/2in. (68.6 × 54.6 cm)

Accession number
2003.233

Edition
1/5 | AP

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Postwar Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/19518

Exhibitions

Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras

Nov 12, 2003–Feb 7, 2004

Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection

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