Untitled
1982
from the Pleasure is back series
- Medium
- screenprint on tin
- Measurements
- (a-e) 173.5 × 158.2 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- New York, New York, United States
- Accession Number
- 2021.21.a-e
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest and NGV Foundation, 2021
© Courtesy of the Gretchen Bender Estate and Metro Pictures, New York - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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Gretchen Bender was a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of 1980s artists who worked primarily with photography, drawing on conceptual art and Pop Art to critique the media and popular culture. For her Pleasure is Back series, Bender combined images from television and art history and applied them as silk-screens to tin, drawing parallels between iconic art forms and the consumer culture of advertising. For each work in the series, Bender appropriated the work of a celebrated male artist. Here, she references Roy Lichtenstein (1923–97) and A. R. Penck (1939–2017) by reproducing elements of their work alongside images of women’s faces in states of pleasure and delight.