Painting
Are You Winning, Barb?
A satire of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's "Dogs Playing Poker" with Barbie. Informed by iconic mobster movies such as Martin Scorsese's "Casino," "Godfather," and "Goodfellas."
Painting
Barbspotting
With the viewer in the position of a Peeping Tom, Barbie (now not-so) secretly sheds the glamour of her packaging inside a public bathroom cubicle. Inspired by David Boyle's 'Trainspotting,' a 1996 film that explores the lives of young, British men... More
Painting
Fuck-Ass Bob
The cyclical nature of generational trauma, how trauma is held in hair, and the permanent damage of cutting a doll's hair.
Painting
Gimme Paw
A grotesque play scene with a Littlest Pet Shop dog and a Polly Pocket doll, based on antagonistic dogs in film such as Cujo and kennel-thing (from 'The Thing').
Painting
Orange is the New Pink: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Genocide
Re-imagined play scenarios based on the truth of my mother's life during the Vietnam War, alongside the theatrical fiction of American movies about the war such as 'Tropic Thunder,' 'Missing in Action,' and 'Full Metal Jacket.'
Painting
Portrait With Dolls I: Nightmare Blunt Rotation
Self-portrait with Barbies in a nightmare blunt rotation.
Painting
Portrait With Dolls II: Microplastics
Self-portrait of the artist committing seppuku, revealing the dolls that hide in her body.
Painting
Raging Blondes
Barbie fights against Barbie in a recreation of an aggressive play scenario from my childhood. There can only be one winner, but both go home with their own set of losses.
Other
Red Room
Inspired by David Lynch’s 'Twin Peaks,' wherein Barbie adopts the role of Laura Palmer - injecting Laura's darkness into their shared beauty and blondeness.
Work by
Tiffany Duong aka. @tiffanymustdie
Drawing and Painting
“With Barbie as a vessel for my consciousness, I escape into the imaginary world of play to inconsequentially explore, re-imagine, and validate the deviant impulses of my psyche as a means of...” [More]