Eleanor Antin

Diane Rosenstein Gallery presents Persona, a focused solo exhibition of photographs and works on paper by iconic conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. The works on view, created between 1971-1977, depict the artist in performance as her personae The Ballerina, The King, The Nurse, and Eleanor Nightingale.

This is Antin’s third solo exhibition with our gallery.

Eleanor Antin, who is based in San Diego, uses fictional characters, autobiography, and theatrical narrative to examine the ways that history takes shape, and also to scrutinize the role that visual representation plays in that process. In her practice Antin alludes to the social and psychological pressures of ‘modern-day’ women, in the guise of an extreme female archetype. This show reflects on recurring feminist alter egos or performative identities in her work to engage the trajectory of themes in her oeuvre.