CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/6/2021

Provocative, prescient 'Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks' is on view now at the Guggenheim

"Self-Portrait of Me Now in Mask" (2011) is reproduced from Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, published to accompany the Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist’s first-ever North American retrospective, on view at the Guggenheim through April 4, 2022. Wearing's photographs, videos, sculpture and painting "probe the tensions between self and society in an increasingly media-saturated world," curators Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman write. "Candid and psychologically complex, her work extends the traditions of photographic portraiture initiated by Diane Arbus, August Sander and Andy Warhol, yet it also foreshadows the cultural transformations wrought by reality television, social media and the notion of identity as an authentic brand."