Michelle MacNaught Works on Paper
2011
$63.00
First edition of Michelle MacNaught Works on Paper (2011). Medium format softcover in near fine condition. Slight shelf wear to outer cover. Please see photos for reference.
About
Michelle MacNaught completed her life-sized self-portrait drawing, "Can-Cer-Vive," on October 8, 2011, by firing bullets from a rifle into the zone of it that represents, in black, her ovarian cancer. The deed was symbolically, and wittily, both a violent surgery and an act of war. Against a vicious enemy, Michelle mobilizes all her resources, foremost among them a blossoming gift for art. The skill and satirical bite of her "Chemo" series of graphics evoke one of her artistic heroes, Otto Dix, and model an attitude of beautiful defiance.