William Wegman, Alexander and Mattie, 2003, Color Polaroid, 80×40”. Collection of Ann Fitzpatrick Brown.

 

Extraordinary, original portraits by leading contemporary artists.

The BOMB Portrait Project is an ongoing program in collaboration with some of the most exciting artists and photographers working today. For more information on commissioning a portrait of you and/or your loved ones, please contact Betsy Sussler at (718) 636-9100×103.

Upcoming artists for 2008–2009 include:

Martha Rosler
Laurie Simmons
William Wegman
Fred Wilson

The following artists were a part of the BOMB Portrait Project in 2004–2008:

Tina Barney
Chuck Close
Gregory Crewdson
Eric Fischl
Adam Fuss
Ralph Gibson
Nan Goldin
Vera Lutter
Vik Muniz
Shirin Neshat
Robert Polidori
Billy Sullivan

 

Shirin Neshat, Marie Douglas David, 2006, black and white photograph on Ilford Digital Fiber Paper, 30×50”.

Eric Fischl, Untitled (Detail), 2004, Color Polaroid, 80×40”. Private collection.

Vera Lutter, The Hedges, 2006, Silver Gelatin Print, 30×40”. Private Collection.

 

 

2007–2008 Artists and BOMB Portrait Descriptions

 

Martha Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and has published ten books, including titles on art history, sociology, women studies, architecture, urban planning, film and media theory, and contemporary cultural studies. Her work has been seen at several Whitney biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia Center for the Arts in New York; and was included in Documenta XII in Kassell, Germany. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center of Photography. She was recently awarded the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria’s highest award in the fine arts. She is represented by Mitchell Innes & Nash and lives in Brooklyn.

 

Laurie Simmons was born on Long Island and earned a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. Her photographs have appeared in group and solo shows throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and she is represented in numerous private and public collections, from Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Hara Museum in Tokyo. Her work has been commissioned for several projects for institutions and organizations including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, and the Tribeca Film Festival, and her awards and honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in Visual Arts from the American Academy in Rome. Her publications include In and Around the House, Photographs 1976–78 (2003) and Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying (2005). Simmons lives and works in Manhattan and is represented by Sperone Westwater, New York.

 

William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Since the early ‘70s, Wegman’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows, his work was included in such seminal exhibitions as When Attitudes Become Form, and Documenta V. Wegman has also created film and video works for Saturday Night Live and Nickelodeon and his video segments for Sesame Street have appeared regularly since 1989. In 1995, Wegman’s film The Hardly Boys was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. A collection of his selected video works from 1970–99 was recently released on DVD by Artpix.

Numerous retrospectives of Wegman’s work have been made, among them Wegman’s World, which opened at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 1981 and toured the United States and William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes. More recent exhibitions have included retrospectives in Sweden, Japan, Korea and Spain and, most recently the exhibition Funney/Strange, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2006 and made its final stop at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus in the fall of 2007. Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

 

Fred Wilson is represented by PaceWildenstein in New York City. He was born in the Bronx, New York in 1954. Wilson creates new exhibition contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects. He received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award. He is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Object, Exhibition, and Knowledge at Skidmore College. He represented the US at the Biennial Cairo (1992) and Venice Biennale. The Studio Museum in Harlem has featured his work.

Fred Wilson would like to visit the purchaser’s home or establishment, gather objects there that he feels are indicative of the environment and the person/family. Fred will then create an installation of these objects on site, and take a picture of the installation. That picture, a unique print, will constitute the finished portrait.

 

For more information on commissioning a portrait of you and/or your loved ones, please contact Betsy Sussler at (718) 636-9100 ×103.