Rachel Perry Welty Exhibition

Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Yancey Richardson Gallery presents a project gallery exhibition of photographs by Rachel Perry Welty. In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Welty presents a series of commissioned photographs that originally appeared in the December 2011 issue of Vogue magazine. Using patterns designed by top clothing labels, Prada, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, Nicholas Kirkwood, and Givenchy, Welty stages whimsical self-portraits repurposing luxury goods carefully selected by Vogue editors.

The exhibition is based upon her series Lost in My Life, which utilizes ordinary detritus such as fruit stickers, price tags, receipts and twist ties collected by the artist to create immersive environments. With Lost in My Life, Welty comments on what she calls the “business of living”, the cycle of purchasing, collecting and eventual purging that makes up our day-to-day existence.

In contrast, the use of someone else’s material excess makes the Vogue work a conceptual departure from the Lost in My Life series. Welty was allotted a team of assistants who executed in two days what would normally be a multi-month project. Emulating Warhol’s “factory” style of working, Welty felt the extravagance of having such assistance while retaining the freedom to add her own idiosyncratic style to a fashion magazine spread. In Vogue (Prada), Welty has created a floral wall and floor covering using the pattern of the designer’s new spring golf bag. Welty barely reveals her own placement in the photograph as she hides her head within the subject matter. The lines of the designer’s jacket, the artist’s hair and her own hands are the only things that distinguish her from the luxury brand’s design in which she is engulfed.

Born in Japan in 1962, Rachel Perry Welty lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her solo museum exhibition, 24/7, opened at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in 2011 and is currently on display at the Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, through July 2012. Her video “Karaoke Wrong Number” is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Welty’s work has also been exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Krannert Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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from May 24, 2012 to July 06, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-24 from 18:00 to 20:00

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