500 Year Itch, Shelley Niro

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Shelley Niro, 500 Year Itch
Shelley Niro, 500 Year Itch
Shelley Niro
500 Year Itch
1992
Shelley Niro, artist
Cultural affiliations: Mohawk
born 1954
500 Year Itch, 1992
Portfolio/Series title: This Land is Mime Land
Where object was made: Canada
Material/technique: gelatin silver print; hand coloring; drilling; mat board
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 55.9 x 91.4 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22 1/2 x 36 0.9843 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 23 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 0 3/4 in
Weight (Weight): 7 lbs
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2002.0110
On display: Perkins Central Court
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Exhibition Label: "American Indian Art at the Spencer Museum," 6-Sep-2003 to 19-Oct-2003, Andrea Norris This triptych depicts Niro herself dressed as Marilyn Monroe on the left, Niro’s mother as a young woman in the center, and Niro herself dressed in everyday clothes on the right. While mocking women’s attempts to be Marilyn, she also suggests the roles people perceived as outsiders feel forced to play in order to belong.