♰ Blog Posts ♰
1. La Poupee
2. Aunt Ruth
3. Garage (1999)
4. Jean Paul Gaultier SS07
5. Self Trepanation
6.Issenheim Altarpiece
7.Garden of Earthly Delights
8.Butcher Bunny
9.Star Maker
10. The Creature
♰ Information
Greer Lankton is an American artist known for sewing lifesize dolls resembling celebrities and close friends of hers. Her work often reflects on gender, and the human body. Lankton viewed the body as something going through constant metamorphosis, mixing the glamorous, and macabre into a campy, surrealist fantasy. Lankton’s work is often compared to Hans Bellmer’s La Poupee, which I wrote about in my first blog post, They’re both centered around gender, sexuality, using dolls but Lankton’s work strikes me as a materialization of her inner world and struggles, rather than an expression of desires like Bellmer.
I really adore Lankton’s sculptures because they tell us so much about her as a person and the culture surrounding her at the time. She satirizes celebrities frequently, showing the grotesque underbelly of stardom in humorously dark ways. Her gender identity is a focus in almost all of her work as well, sculpting almost entirely androgynous, or transgender figures. Aunt Ruth is a sculpture of her drag queen friend Ruth, she is the tallest of Lankton’s dolls and was frequently made up into different styles of hair, makeup and clothes, or transformed into entirely new pieces.
Greer Lankton
1982
Greer Lankton
1982