Olivia Bill
Self-Portrait (Jane Fonda)
Painting
2025
Oil on canvas
24 x 36"
Self-Portrait (Jane Fonda) is a painting made up of 12 reproductions of an image of Jane Fonda reclining by the poolside; with each iteration, every iteration but the previous was covered up, causing the reproductions to naturally distort from the source image over time. Paired with a cropped self portrait of my eyes, the work is a reflection of my biases in seeing.
Work by
Olivia Bill
Multidisciplinary
“Appropriating commercial photographs from the 1950s-1970s, my work explores ideas surrounding gender, power, violence and desire. My work aims to question these highly constructed photographs,...” [More]