Lesbian Art Herstory: Catherine Opie And Her Retrospective At the Guggenheim

Video by Velvet Park Magazine shoot Dec 8th 2008.

Catherine Opie : Retrospective at the Guggenheim, "American Photographer" Sept 26th, 2008 - Jan 7th, 2009.
In this video Grace Moon talks with queer photographer Catherine Opie about Catherine’s retrospective at the Guggenheim.

Art Book: Catherine Opie: American Photographer
A monograph about Catherine Opie’s photography titled ‘Catherine Opie: American Photographer’ was published by the Guggenheim.
Editorial Review of the book: “This comprehensive exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie’s work, is the first to gather all of the artist’s key projects to date in a single volume. Opie is best known for her subtle but potent portraits of people from the queer communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. In this definitive volume, each of Opie’s series – among them Portraits, Freeways, Domestic, Icehouses and In and Around Home – is reproduced in full color plates alongside works that were not displayed in the exhibition, allowing for the most complete overview of this important Los Angeles artist’s work to date. In addition, this volume features a lead essay by exhibition curator Jennifer Blessing, which surveys Opie’s artistic career and its historical contexts; a series of interviews with the artist by Russell Ferguson, Chair of the Department of Art at UCLA; and a brief personal reflection by internationally renowned novelist Dorothy Allison, whose work explores many concerns similar to Opie’s. It also includes introductory essays on each of the artist’s series by Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim, as well as a newly researched, exhaustive exhibition history and bibliography, making it the primary source for future research on Opie’s work.

Catherine Opie was born in Ohio in 1961 and is currently Professor of Photography at UCLA. Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others.”

Catherine Opie: American Photographer
Dorothy Allison (Author), Jennifer Blessing (Author), Nat Trotman (Author), Russell Ferguson (Author), Catherine Opie (Photographer)
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum; First Edition edition (October 1, 2008)
ISBN-10: 9780892073757
ISBN-13: 978-0892073757
ASIN: 0892073756