Demons, Yemaya "Goddess of the Living Ocean"

2018

Martine Gutierrez

Associated Names
Martine Gutierrez

Artist, American, born 1989

This photograph depicts the upper body of a person, their elbows bent and resting on a flat surface in front of them, their hands together. The person has light brown skin, large eyes, and a straight nose. Their face is painted with symmetrical white dots across their nose, cheekbones, and cheeks, with heavy black eyeliner, blue eyeshadow, and shimmering blue pigment on their neck and hands. They are adorned with lots of jewelry, including necklaces and bracelets made of small shells in white, blue, brown, and iridescent shades, strands of pearls around their wrists and hands, silver armbands with small chains and feather-like shapes, reflective silver rings, large white round earrings, two silver nose rings, and a headdress adored with silver beads and white shells. Their black hair is styled elaborately, with a large ball on the top of their head that shows hints of a woven blue and gold net. On either side of their head are two sections of hair pointing straight outward, like the sides of a large bow. Braids extend outward from these bow-like shapes, all adorned with small silver bands. The person wears a vibrant purple and white geometric-patterned garment with the motifs of birds and plants in green, blue, pink, and red. The wall behind them and the surface they lean on are both bright turquoise, and the photograph is surrounded with a patterned, ornate frame carved with floral shapes and circles and painted in shades of orange, red, blue, teal, and white.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print in hand-painted artist’s frame

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 90.81 × 60.33 cm (35 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
    framed: 104.78 × 74.3 × 4.45 cm (41 1/4 × 29 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.180.3

  • Series Title

    Indigenous Woman

  • Copyright

    © Martine Gutierrez; Courtesy of the artist, RYAN LEE Gallery, New York, and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martine Gutierrez, New York; NGA purchase (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on label affixed to frame verso, lower right corner, signed by artist in black ink: Martine Gutierrez


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