SUBJECTIVE FRAME Born 1954. Attended State University College at Buffalo, NY, majored in art, and received a bachelor's degree in 1976. "It wasn't until college that I had any concept of what was going on in the art world. My idea of being an artist as a kid was a courtroom artist or one of those boardwalk artists who do caricatures. My parents had a book of, like, the one hundred one beautiful paintings, which included Dali …showed first 75 words of 937 total…

…showed last 75 words of 937 total…commentary, it has simply departed from capturing the ideal." ~ http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/cindy/sherman.htm Andy Warhol: "She's good enough to be a real actress." Critic Amelia Jones: "Art historians and critics have claimed her as an artist/genius who excavates the human consciousness or as a producer of work exemplifying a postmodern culture of simulation, a feminist negotiation of the male gaze, or the condition of the abject in artistic practice."