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Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Laura L. Letinsky is an artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Letinsky’s works contend with what and how a photograph “means” while engaging and challenging the notions of domesticity, gender, and consumption. She was included in the 2019 PHotoEspaña and is a Guggenheim fellow. Letinsky received her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1986 and MFA from Yale School of Art in 1991. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and the Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship in 2001. She is currently a professor of visual arts at the University of Chicago. Letinsky stopped photographing for a year in 2009, opting to work in ceramics, textiles, and words. This turn to more material practice was related to her questions related to the photograph as image and as object. Returning to photography in 2010, she began work on another still-life series, Ill Form and Void Full. In this work, she sought to try to “restructure the desire [photography] engenders” by making overt that pictures beget other pictures, i.e. images inform subsequent images. In 2019, Letinsky debuted her series, To Want For Nothing, in Chicago. These images marked a transition away from her domestic table settings and instead, using magazine and advertisement cutouts she creates composite images that explore form as it impacts narrative, and the unrelenting and overwhelming behemoth that is our image culture. Her work is included in the collection of the Getty Museum, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Creator Id: 364
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Manitoba
Year of Birth: 1962
City: Chicago
Country: United States
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: ceramics, photography, text-based, textiles
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Work by Laura Letinsky

Untitled (Bev and Ivor – back) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82156

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Francesca and Dov) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82152

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Laura and Eric) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82153

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Dawn and Scott – coitus) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82161

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Laura and Eric – dress) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82160

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Laura and Eric – head) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82155

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Laura and Eric – jesus) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82158

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Laura and Eric – eden) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82157

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Laura and Eric – mermaid) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82154

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled (Rita and Blair – rubbing eyes) Venus Inferred series

Work ID: 82159

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm, Ed. 22.86 / 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Ed. 12.7

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Untitled #3 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82164

Measurements: 50.8 x 64.135 cm

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Untitled #9 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82162

Measurements: 47.625 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #15 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82167

Measurements: 38.1 x 62.865 cm

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Untitled #23 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82166

Measurements: approx. 46.99 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #10 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82168

Measurements: 38.1 x 62.865 cm

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Untitled #5 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82163

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #4 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82165

Measurements: 49.53 x 62.865 cm

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Untitled #32 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82170

Measurements: approx. 47.625 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #40 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82171

Measurements: 43.18 x 60.325 cm

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Untitled #35 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82169

Measurements: approx. 38.1 x 62.865 cm

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Untitled #34 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82172

Measurements: approx. 47.625 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #55 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82175

Measurements: approx. 88.9 x 58.42 cm

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Untitled #52 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82173

Measurements: approx. 67.31 x 88.9 cm

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Untitled #54 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82174

Measurements: approx. 66.04 12.7 x 78.74 cm

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Untitled #80 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82176

Measurements: approx. 56.515 x 84.455 cm

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Untitled #8 Somewhere Somewhere series

Work ID: 82178

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #16 Somewhere Somewhere series

Work ID: 82179

Description: Somewhere Somewhere series.

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #20 Somewhere Somewhere series

Work ID: 82180

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #16 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82192

Measurements: 76.2 x 106.68 cm

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Untitled #10 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82188

Measurements: 58.42 x 88.9 cm

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Untitled #6 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82187

Measurements: 96.52 x 127 cm

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Untitled #3 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82184

Measurements: 76.2 x 113.665 cm

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Untitled #9b To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82190

Measurements: 91.44 x 73.66 cm

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Untitled #25 Somewhere Somewhere series

Work ID: 82181

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #4 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82185

Measurements: 48.26 x 68.58 cm

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Untitled #9a To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82189

Measurements: 91.44 x 73.66 cm

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Untitled #11 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82191

Measurements: approx. 59.69 x 88.9 cm

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Untitled #5 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82186

Measurements: 48.895 x 63.5 cm

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Untitled #33 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82194

Measurements: approx. 47.625 x 58.42 cm

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Untitled #30 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82193

Measurements: 78.74 x 96.52 cm

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Untitled #35 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82196

Measurements: 92.71 x 114.3 cm

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Untitled #34 To Say It Isn’t So series

Work ID: 82195

Measurements: 66.04 x 91.44 cm

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Untitled #7, Fall series

Work ID: 82201

Measurements: approx. 83.185 x 127 cm

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Untitled #9, Fall series

Work ID: 82203

Measurements: 79.375 x 101.6 cm

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Untitled #4, Fall series

Work ID: 82200

Measurements: 71.12 x 55.88 cm

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Untitled #8, Fall series

Work ID: 82202

Measurements: 100.33 x 127 cm

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Untitled #3, Fall series

Work ID: 82199

Measurements: 71.12 x 58.42 cm

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Untitled #2, Italy series

Work ID: 82205

Measurements: 88.9 x 114.3 cm

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Untitled #1, Italy series

Work ID: 82204

Measurements: 95.885 x 127 cm

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Untitled #1, Fall series

Work ID: 82197

Measurements: 114.3 x 93.98 cm

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Untitled #2, Fall series

Work ID: 82198

Measurements: 71.12 x 53.34 cm

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Untitled #29 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82209

Measurements: 90.17 x 114.3 cm on 111.76 x 134.62 cm paper

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Untitled #15 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82210

Measurements: 127 x 98.425 cm on 148.59 x 118.745 cm paper

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Untitled #28 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82208

Measurements: 90.17 x 114.3 cm on 111.76 x 134.62 cm paper

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Untitled #12 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82211

Measurements: 107.95 x 88.9 cm on 129.54 x 109.22 cm paper

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Untitled #3 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82206

Measurements: 80.01 x 101.6 cm on 101.6 x 121.92 cm paper

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Untitled #13 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82212

Measurements: 102.235 x 127 cm on 123.825 x 147.32 cm paper

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Untitled #24 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82207

Measurements: 114.3 x 88.9 cm on 135.89 x 114.3 cm paper

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Untitled #47 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82216

Measurements: 81.28 x 64.77 cm on 105.41 x 86.995 cm paper

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Untitled #41 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82218

Measurements: 63.5 x 81.28 cm on 83.82 x 101.6 In. paper

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Untitled #46 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82215

Measurements: 81.28 x 64.77 cm on 105.41 x 86.995 cm paper

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Untitled #49 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82213

Measurements: 127 x 99.06 cm on 147.32 x 119.38 cm paper

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Untitled #9 Somewhere Somewhere series

Work ID: 82182

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #51 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82217

Measurements: 127 x 99.06 cm on 148.59 x 120.015 cm paper

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Untitled #18 Somewhere Somewhere series

Work ID: 82183

Measurements: 50.8 x 60.96 cm

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Untitled #31 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82219

Measurements: 100.33 x 127 cm on 123.825 x 147.32 cm paper

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Untitled #53 Ill Form and Void series

Work ID: 82214

Measurements: 127 x 99.06 cm on 147.32 x 123.825 cm paper

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Untitled #92 Hardly More Than Ever series

Work ID: 82177

Measurements: 55.88 x 80.01 cm

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