The British artist Gillian Wearing is celebrated for her photographic and video portraits, which are at once conceptual and empathetic. Recently, Wearing began making sculptures, including the first monument to a woman—the suffragist Millicent Fawcett—ever installed in London’s Parliament Square. On Oct. 20, the Public Art Fund unveils Wearing’s bronze homage to Diane Arbus (pictured) in Central Park’s Doris C. Freedman Plaza; on Nov. 5, the Guggenheim opens the retrospective “Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks.”
The Conceptual and Empathetic Art of Gillian Wearing
The British artist’s bronze homage to Diane Arbus is unveiled in Central Park, and the Guggenheim opens the retrospective “Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks.”
Photograph by Eric Helgas for The New Yorker
