Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Rachel Lebowitz, "The New York Subway in More Than 50 Years of Art," Artsy, October 11, 2016, online
Artspace Editors, "What to Say About Your New Nan Goldin Print," Artspace , February 5, 2020, online, (another example illustrated)
Artspace Curators, "Invite a Few New Faces Into Your Home Via Contemporary Portraiture," Arstpace, September 27, 2020, online (another example illustrated)
Chloe Tai, "Aperture Auctions Review," Musee Magazine, October 28, 2020, online (another example illustrated)
Hudson Brown, "The Greats: How Nan Goldin Photographed 'A Record of Real Life,'" Urth Magazine, February 8, 2021, online, (another example illustrated)
Julianne McShane, "From genetics to allyship: how queer culture changed the family portrait," The Guardian, October 27, 2021, online, (another example illustrated)
American • 1953
American artist Nan Goldin uses photography to expose the intimate and vulnerable nature of her personal life. Her photographs are raw, authentic, sexual and, at times, highly violent. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, chronicles Goldin's life during the late 1970s and '80s, following the artist through the gritty, abusive and often dangerous situations she put herself through.
The material being half-autobiographical and half-universal, Goldin attempts to depict the complexities of city living by way of diaristic practices. Having shot New York during its golden years, she has created an expansive archive of the AIDS crisis, drug abuse in the 1980s, underground culture and urban development.
View More Works
