Self Portrait (Detroit Portrait series)
Artist
Kurt Novak
(American)
Date2003 - 2005
MediumArchival pigment print on cotton rag paper
DimensionsPaper Size: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Frame Size: 26 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (67.3 × 57.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Object numberUAC6118
DescriptionKurt Novak was born and artistically educated in Detroit as a second-generation Cass Corridor artist. Attending Wayne State University and being surrounded by the work of the older Cass Corridor artists, Novak began his artistic spiral through every type of media imaginable – from paintings and sculptures to manipulated scanner photography as seen in this exhibition. Using a flatbed scanner, Novak scans the visages of local artistic celebrities and very carefully times their movements to create a surreal, irregular image. Each portrait displays a characteristic of the subject’s persona – swift blurs of musical movement in the portrait of Wayne Kramer, poetic and organic plants in that of John Sinclair, the duality of a friend and a professional in James Pearson Duffy. Novak has an impressive resume of solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, and public commissions from New York City to Kansas City, and continues today to create and showcase his art as well as curating exhibitions.Collections
