Basic Information
Title: Red Facial Grid for Producing an Image of a Person’s Face at a Different Age
Artist(s):
Nancy Burson
Date Created: 1981
Unframed Dimensions: 28.25 x 24 in.
Medium: pastel and colored pencil on vellum
Inventory ID: Burson-1981-01
Description
signed and dated lower right corner of the vellum in graphite
titled lower left corner of the vellum in graphite
exhibited at Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson, originating at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NYC in 2002.
Detail images of the work
signed, titled, and dated on the reverse in graphite description provided by the artist: Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), 1982, was one of my first composite portraits. It remains my personal favorite as the image itself seems to be a morph that works on a more perceptual level than is usually seen simply as […]
signed and dated lower left in ink titled and numbered 5/15 lower right in ink The artist’s face superimposed with a cat
signed, titled, dated, and numbered 5/7 on the reverse in graphite accompanied by the original Time Magazine for further information about this work see the artist’s website
The following images were used to illustrate the pioneering patented process issued in 1981. all photographs are signed, titled, numbered in sequence, and dated on the reverse in graphite titles of the 10 images: 1. Standard Young Face 2. Standard Old Face 3. Standard Young Face Mapped 4. Standard Old Face Mapped 5. Warped Young […]
