DUNNING, Jeanne.

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Heads. First editions. Dunning's artist's book Heads, a curated selection of photographs from her series of the same name, challenges gender power dynamics: "if someone is looking at me and they know it … they've given me power. I have something they want" (p. [xv]). It is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue for her 1991 solo show Bodies of Work. Jeanne Dunning (born 1960) studied at Oberlin College and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and first exhibited at the Feature Gallery in Chicago in 1987. Her surreal photography and film works investigate corporeality, human physicality, and gender. An essay in the exhibition catalogue for Bodies of Work, written by the artist Laurie Palmer, observes that "Dunning's refusal is a tease and a slap in the face. In the series called Heads, attention is diverted... to the phallic shape of the woman's bobbed haircut. But the message – from artist to viewer – is, more simply, fuck you" (p. 4).

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