Football Landscape #8 (Crenshaw vs. Jefferson, Los Angeles, CA)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.High school football is not a conventional subject for contemporary artists in any medium. Neither are freeways nor surfers, each of which are series by the artist Catherine Opie. A professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles, Opie spent several years traveling across the United States making close-up portraits of adolescent gladiators as well as seductive, large-scale landscape views of the game itself. Poignant studies of group behavior and American masculinity on the cusp of adulthood, the photographs can be seen as an extension of the artist’s diverse body of work related to gender performance in the queer communities in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Artwork Details
- Title: Football Landscape #8 (Crenshaw vs. Jefferson, Los Angeles, CA)
- Artist: Catherine Opie (American, born Sandusky, Ohio, 1961)
- Date: 2007
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Image: 48 × 64 in. (121.9 × 162.6 cm)
Framed: 49 × 65 in. (124.5 × 165.1 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
- Curatorial Department: Photographs