Dorothy Iannone
Dorothy Iannone's artistic project has a deeply autobiographical a profoundly autobiographical, spiritual and political dimension. The eccentricity of her nude characters is an ode to gender equality and sexual freedom.
Private Choice 2024 will feature his wool and cotton tufted tapestry entitled I don't want to be D, featuring a nude young woman riding a chimera. Amid vivid, sanguine colors, the hieratically powerful muse bears the title of the work on her thigh. This edition of 20 copies (+ 5 artists' proofs) is made possible by the association with WE DO NOT WORK ALONE.
Biography
The American artist was born in Boston in 1933 and died in Berlin in 2022. After graduating from Boston University in 1957 with a B.A. in American Literature, Dorothy Iannone pursued graduate studies in English Literature at Brandeis University. In 1958, she married painter James Upham and moved to New York. In 1959, she began painting. At the end of 2019, the Centre Pompidou devoted a monographic exhibition to her entitled "Dorothy Iannone, toujours de l'audace".
"Inversions abound in Iannone's work, whether through the inversion (and fusion) of masculine and feminine, muse and creator, sacred and profane, celestial and carnal, submission and domination, compliment and insult, humor and seriousness. Nothing is quite what it seems, or entirely one thing or the other."
These words from Lisa Pearson about the work of Dorothy Iannone shed light on the collaboration carried out since 2018 and initiated by the design of the Forever True lamp.