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vanessa german: THE BEAST, or Self Portrait
Ongoing
Carlene and Lee Banks Rotunda Gallery
About This Exhibition
vanessa german’s THE BEAST, or Self Portrait is deeply personal. The artist calls the sculpture a “physical self-portrait” — the first in her career — but also a “self-portrait of the soul, of the heart, a self-portrait of my own experience of being myself.”
Included in the exhibition is a short interview with the artist, recorded at the studios of Method Productions in Wichita, as she discusses THE BEAST, or Self Portrait.
New Acquisition
![Photo of the sculpture by vanessa german showing a figure and hands outstretched and balanced on two small wooden chairs](https://wam.org//wp-content/uploads/2023/03/german_THEBEAST-600x900.jpg)
vanessa german, THE BEAST, or Self Portrait, 2022. Ingredients for the Work: love, wood, fire, plaster, wood glue, glass beaded, bead trims, hand blown glass nipples, old coke bottles, hand blown glass egg/tear shapes, hope, hair grease, rage, sorrow, bitterness, obsessive thoughts, two wooden Children’s chairs, rage, ptsd, tears, black so-flat paint, tar, white and pink so-flat, wire, cloth, Astro turf, anxiety, two miracles, everyday there is grace, love. 78 3/4 x 42 x 30 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin. Photography by Diego Flores