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Artwork

Untitled

Artist/Creator
John Massey (Artist)
Date
1986
ID #
BG969

Physical Description

Medium
ink
Support
paper
Dimensions
63.5 cm 61 cm (Object)
Object Description
The print is one of seven prints produced by Massey in the mid-1980s during a troubled period in his work and life. It is a self-portrait. A montage of hands and penises furls from his open shirt collar as tattoo or body hair. It’s an image that evokes—if not strangulation—a subject caught in a repetitive auto-erotic mechanism that suggests a hopeless and pathos to the phallocentred subject.

History

Collection
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line
Gift of Veronica Smith, 1993
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