About the Work
SANA, 2008
13 1/2 x 12 inches
Archival Pigment Print from a 665 Polaroid Negative
The subject of this image is the artist Sana Musasana. When teaching at Penland School of Crafts, Musasana saw some of Bass’s figurative work and asked if she would make a photograph of her body. Musasana, a highly respected ceramic and mixed media artist living in New York, got together with Bass and Carolyn DeMeritt, photographer from Charlotte, NC and printer of this digital image of Musasana from a scanned Polaroid negative. The three women spent a morning together to create this evocative image.
OTHER PATRON PRINTS
Pinky Bass – Fairhope, AL – [New for 2012-2013]
Pinky/MM Bass of Fairhope, AL received her BA from Agnes Scott College in 1958 and her MFA in Photography from Georgia State University in 1988. She has worked as a free-lance artist since that time. Bass lived in Mexico City for many years and organized many collaborative artists’ projects while there. Bass’s awards include an Alabama Artist Fellowship and a Southern Arts Federation/NEA grant. Her work is housed in a number of public collections and museums including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among publications in which her work is featured are The Polaroid Book, Book of Alternative Photographic Processes and Pinhole Photography.
Bass is best known for her black and white pinhole and Polaroid images, capitalizing on the mistakes and peculiarities that occur with each of these processes. The human figure has been her primary focus. Bass began stitching internal organs on the photographic image of her naked body after her cancer-stricken sister moved back to Fairhope. These intimate works were included in the 2008 Halsey group exhibition MEND: love, life & loss. The artist is currently working with music created by the shapes and images of body cells made using the Teneriffe lace process.
ABOUT THE PATRON PRINT PROGRAM:
Each year we offer a new set of limited edition prints available exclusively to our Patron members. Artists who have been a part of the Halsey Institute’s programming have specially created these prints for us. Beginning at the POSTMODERNIST level ($350), you may choose from one of the prints we have available. We are delighted to unveil our newest additions to the Patron Print Program featured upon the walls of our new HICA Hall of Patron Prints located on the first floor of The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts. Gradually, you can build your art collection while supporting adventurous contemporary art in Charleston!
