Chameleon | Cindy Sherman

Master of the well-disguised self-portrait, Cindy Sherman’s foray into the world of digital photography recently went on display at Metro Pictures gallery in Chelsea. Beginning in the late 70s, Sherman started exploring social role-playing and sexual stereotypes through elaborate caricatures that have continued to be her most defining artistic theme. During the 80s she explored mutilation and grotesque creations with prosthetics before returning to address sexual roles in the 90s. Up until her recent show she was among the camp of photographers clinging to the fading world of film, but this recent show was based on her new body of work as a convert to the digital universe. The manipulations of the photos are intentionally flawed in small ways that only adds strength to the parodies that she creates with each caricature.