Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Fashion: Online Viewing Room
"Partially of necessity, fashion is a domain rife with paradox...Easily and often criticized for its perceived commercial restraints, fashion is also telling of the desires and mores of a time period. It is a document of culture. It is a second skin, a mediating tissue to the outside world. It is performative and public, yet deeply personal...
Rafferty mines the sartorial lexicon of the online shopping arena, appropriating found imagery and deploying the quotidian, serialized object, alongside the rarified, coveted status symbol. Filtering both alike through the virtual intimacy of the internet, the objects are presented as flattened silhouettes, acting as a tabula rasa for the desires and aspirations of the consumer, and a surrogate for the complexities of the body itself." - text from essay "Is Fashion Facile? or A Good Copy Is Better Than A Bad Original" by Mellissa Huber, Assistant Curator, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art published in a zine by Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Recommended Reading in 2016.
Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Fashion is an online exhibition which focuses on Rafferty's interest in the history and industry of fashion. The show includes a selection of important pieces spanning the last seven years, many of which have featured prominently in museum shows across the USA.
The works presented here utilize imagery pulled largely from online clothes shopping. Specific references include mass produced items like boyfriend jeans and graphic tee-shirts as well as iconic garments by designers and luxury brands like Moschino, Commes de Garcons, and Yves Saint Laurent. Rafferty explores these symbols of both global capitalism and so-called individuality while considering the presumptively facile realm of apparel and fashion.
Achieved through an innovative process which combines Plexiglas, acrylic polymer, paint and inkjet prints, the resulting singular pictures reveal the artist's hand while also using the logic of the internet or a computer desktop. These works speak to Rafferty's ongoing considerations of the implications for photography in the digital era and saturation of images and content in our world today.
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Grid, 2016Acrylic polymer, inkjet prints, and paper on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardwareIrregular, 70 ½ x 24 x ½ inches (179 x 61 x 1.3 cm) -
FM FM 1990, 2016, 2016Acrylic polymer, inkjet prints, and paper on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardwareIrregular, 35 x 24 x ½ inches (88.9 x 61 x 1.3 cm)
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Kane Dress 2016, 2016-2019Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardwareirregular, 48 x 24 x 1/2 inches (121.9 x 61 x 1.3 cm)
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Picture (Help by Lanvin), 2018Gelatin silver print20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
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Untitled, 2014Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardwareIrregular, 45 x 40 x ½ inches (114.3 x 101.6 x 1.3 cm)
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Thigh High, 2016Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardware78 x 60 x ½ inches (198.1 x 152.4 x 1.3 cm)
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Top and Bottom, 2016Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardwareIrregular, 40 x 56 x ½ inches (101.6 x 142.2 x 1.3 cm)
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Pink Tights I, 2017Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas29 x 23 inches (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
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The Long Glove I, 2017Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas with cardboard behind29 x 23 inches (73.6 x 58.4 cm)
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Untitled, 2014-15Acrylic polymer and digital print on crepe-de-chine on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardwareIrregular, 53 ½ x 40 x ½ inches (135.9 x 101.6 x 1.3 cm)
Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Fashion
Online: March 2 - 7, 2021
Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Fashion is a week long online exhibition which focuses on Rafferty's interest in the history and industry of fashion. The exhibition will be live in conjunction with our FIAC OVR presentation.
An extension of our FIAC OVR presentation, Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Fashion is an online exhibition which focuses on Rafferty's interest in the history and industry of fashion. The show includes a selection of important pieces spanning the last seven years, many of which have featured prominently in museum shows across the USA.
The works presented here utilize imagery pulled largely from online clothes shopping. Specific references include mass produced items like boyfriend jeans and graphic tee-shirts as well as iconic garments by designers and luxury brands like Moschino, Commes de Garcons, and Yves Saint Laurent. Rafferty explores these symbols of both global capitalism and so-called individuality while considering the presumptively facile realm of apparel and fashion.
Achieved through an innovative process which combines Plexiglas, acrylic polymer, paint and inkjet prints, the resulting singular pictures reveal the artist's hand while also using the logic of the internet or a computer desktop. These works speak to Rafferty's ongoing considerations of the implications for photography in the digital era and saturation of images and content in our world today.