Ms. Clingfree

Photograph

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di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Photo credit: Robert Berg Photography

Photo credit: Robert Berg Photography

Name/Title

Ms. Clingfree

Entry/Object ID

613

Description

Woman in pink terry cloth holding house cleaning paraphernalia

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Ektacolor print

Category

Photographic Art

Acquisition

Accession

AR613

Source or Donor

SF Camerawork

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Made/Created

Artist

Judy Dater

Date made

1982

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Framed

Height

28 in

Width

23 in

Dimension Description

Object

Height

18 in

Width

14 in

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Local Color

Notes

Pages 84 - 85

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Notes

April 14 - August 27, 2024, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa

Exhibition

The Incorrect Museum: Redux

Notes

May 13, 2022 - February 26, 2023, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa

Exhibition

The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes from the di Rosa Collection

Notes

April 17, 2021- April 17, 2022, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa

Exhibition

Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 2)

Notes

June 23, 2018 - December 30, 2018, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa

Exhibition

Looking at You Looking at Me: Artwork from the di Rosa Collection

Notes

October 29, 2011 – February 11, 2012, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa

Research Notes

Research Type

Curator

Date

2023

Notes

Dater’s tongue-in-cheek self-portrait – depicting the artist onstage in a sexy costume, loaded down by cleaning products – makes shrewd mockery of conflicting expectations faced by women in patriarchal society. With a deadpan sneer, she meets the viewer’s gaze, inviting them in on the joke. From a series of self-portraits produced by Dater in the early 80s in a style reminiscent of Cindy Sherman, Ms. Clingfree is explicitly informed by the politics of second-wave feminism and is particularly poignant at this moment when women’s rights are again under attack. Dater (b. 1941) is a pioneering feminist photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally, including the 2018 retrospective Only Human at the de Young Museum. Her work is included in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.