CAROLYN DRAKE – GLORIFY YOURSELF
2024-03-25The series takes its title from the book Glorify Yourself, a “beauty and charm guide” for women, popular in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s. The guide included chapter titles such as “Inviting Lips” and “Sitting Technique,” offering advice for its female readers on how to increase their allure to men. With pages of the book ‘s instructions plastered on one wall of the gallery, Drake’s darkly comedic self-portraits intersect with the misogynistic material that inspired them.
Opposite – Self-Portrait with Gene Tierney (Inviting Lips), 2023
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024
Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Avenue
New York
NY 10011
