Zackary Drucker: Icons weaves together two semi-intertwined personal narratives, juxtaposing newly created self-portrait photographs of artist, producer, and activist Zackary Drucker with pictures the artist has taken of mentor and friend Rosalyne Blumenstein, LCSW, who directed the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center’s pioneering Gender Identity Project in the 1990s. Depicting two women of different ages and experiences and the scars that they bear, Drucker’s work interrogates assumptions about transformation, beauty, aging, and mortality. Her searching, meticulous self-portraits expand on the groundbreaking Relationship series Drucker co-created a decade ago. Forming part of Drucker’s ongoing project to record and chronicle the trans community, her images of muse and mentor Blumenstein capture the cinematic flavor of the artist’s timely revision of art historical precedent.
Curated by Leslie Cozzi, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Exhibition View of Zackary Drucker: Icons at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
