Artwork Collection

Into the Dollhouse

All artworks from "Into the Dollhouse," a series of small-scale mixed media paintings that explore the deviant impulses of the human psyche through child's play and the theatricality of film. Using Barbie as a vessel for my consciousness, I aim to develop a new vision of the female self portrait that challenges misogynistic depictions of women in art and pop culture whilst questioning the classist and patriarchal connotations associated with kitschness.

Mixed Media Nostalgia Femininity Girlhood Womanhood Film Kitsch Pop Culture Riot Grrrl

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

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.'

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.

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.

Painting

Space Oddity

Barbie as a very American space colonizer.

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.

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]