Face-Off Teresa Olabuenaga the urban condition

the urban condition

I care about interacting with the materials and the physical world

language overlays of varied materials and colors

"With mylar

With a bright blue sky and lacy clouds overhead

Face-Off Teresa Olabuenaga the urban conditionFace Off, 2000 Offset Lithograph Edition of 50 30 x 22 in Collaborating Printer: Bob Franklin In Face Off, Gayle Tanaka turns her own face into both subject and argument. Across nine self portraits, she presents the same face in shifting tonal variations each hue enough, in life, to assign a person to an ethnic category and all the assumptions that travel with it. Laid side by side, the effect is quietly destabilizing. The face does not change. Only