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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders "Injured Soldiers"
MA2 Gallery
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greenfield-Sanders is known as an artist and politician who makes portraits of celebrities. Based in New York, his works are in the collections of museums worldwide, including the MOMA, the Met and the Whitney in New York, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.
At this exhibition, he will show portraits of 13 American soldiers wounded in the Iraq war and returned home. Dawn Halfaker, 27, was dispatched to Iraq in February 2004, and four months later was hit by a rocket explosion that cost her her right arm and shoulder, as well as lung damage and residual shrapnel in her body. Halfaker, who was a high school basketball star player, stands in the portrait with her good left hand holding an artificial right one, staring out of the portrait. Attached to the prosthetic limb is a wristwatch with which she can no longer confirm the time on. Also portrayed are other men and women aged from 21 to 41, including Jay Wilkerson, who suffered serious brain damage, Bryan Anderson, who lost an arm and both legs, and Michael Jernigan, who lost both his eyes. These new works by Greenfield-Sanders, captured using a 8x10 camera, are both a copy of a distressing reality and an index to an even more troubling background narrative to these telling portraits.
At this exhibition, he will show portraits of 13 American soldiers wounded in the Iraq war and returned home. Dawn Halfaker, 27, was dispatched to Iraq in February 2004, and four months later was hit by a rocket explosion that cost her her right arm and shoulder, as well as lung damage and residual shrapnel in her body. Halfaker, who was a high school basketball star player, stands in the portrait with her good left hand holding an artificial right one, staring out of the portrait. Attached to the prosthetic limb is a wristwatch with which she can no longer confirm the time on. Also portrayed are other men and women aged from 21 to 41, including Jay Wilkerson, who suffered serious brain damage, Bryan Anderson, who lost an arm and both legs, and Michael Jernigan, who lost both his eyes. These new works by Greenfield-Sanders, captured using a 8x10 camera, are both a copy of a distressing reality and an index to an even more troubling background narrative to these telling portraits.
Schedule | Apr 1 (Tue) 2008-Apr 30 (Wed) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | MA2 Gallery | ||||
| Location | 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from the East exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines, 10 minute walk from exit 2 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3444-1133 | ||||
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