#catherine opie

[slackerb1tch]

Self Portrait/Pervert (1994), followed by Self Portrait/Nursing (2004) both by Catherine Opie.

i have been deeply obsessed with catherine’s work for a minute now, but these two images in particular, side by side, keep echoing in my head the past few days. the more i look and think about them the more i love them. the scarring in the second piece!!! just wow!!! the way that the passage of time is reflected on the body is a huge point of interest for me right now. the blurring of the tattoo, the scarring providing a thread of connection to a former self. the madonna and the whore and what lies in between. one day i will feel more eloquent and write pages and pages about this set of images…but until then i have to at least share them with the void to satisfy myself a tiny bit.

[sheltiechicago]

Drag, gridiron and kids in tutus: America through the lens of Catherine Opie – in pictures

Bo (1994)

Bo was an alter-ego I had for a while, that only worked with that moustache. Back then, me and my friends would put on moustaches and ride our motorcycles to a lesbian bar in LA and we would offer women rides home. Drag was not really that big then – it was in a certain dyke subculture but not in LA – so they were all like, ‘Ahhh, I don’t know what to do with you!’The moustache went through the wash in my jeans pocket and got ruined, so Bo died. That really disturbed my girlfriend. She was like, ‘But I love Bo!’ We later broke up – maybe she liked Bo more than me!

Photograph: Catherine Opie/Regen Projects

[roeswater]

Catherine Opie at Regen Projects, Los Angeles

[ileaveclawmarks]

Catherine Opie, Raven (Gun), 1989.

[opticandmasturbation]

An image of domestic life expressed unresolved longing, Opie’s gallerist said. “Self-Portrait/Cutting,” 1993.

[sourdoughbutch]

Catherine Opie

Self-Portrait/Cutting (1993) / Self-Portrait/Pervert (1994) / Self-Portrait/Nursing (2004)

[clawsonflesh]

Photography by Catherine Opie, 1999

[gowns]

In Catherine Opie’s “Self-Portrait/Nursing,” her chest bears the scar of an inscription from her days as an S/M practitioner: “Pervert.”

[federer7]

Sunday Morning. 1989

Photo: Catherine Opie

[femmepathy]

Dyke Deck by Catherine Opie

[artschoolglasses]

Gina & April, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Catherine Opie, 1998

[les-larmes-d-eros]

Pam shaving, par Catherine Opie

[psikonauti]

Catherine Opie (American,b.1961)

Untitled, 1999

[joeinct]

Untitled #12, Photo by Catherine Opie, 1999

[ileaveclawmarks]

O (1999), Catherine Opie.

[opticandmasturbation]

Catherine Opie Cathy, desert edge, 1987 1987/2024 Pigment print 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (24.8 x 36.8 x 3.8