Carrie Schneider
American, born 1979
Las Bebidas
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Carrie Schneider
American, born 19792007
Las Bebidas
Carrie Schneider American, born 1979 →21st Centurycolor photographchromogenic color print
Date
2007
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
Image/paper, approx./sight: 119.3 × 151.4 cm (47 × 59 5/8 in.); Frame: 124.5 × 156.2 × 3.8 cm (49 1/16 × 61 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Kenneth and Christine Tanaka Fund
Depicting herself and other regulars of the Rainbo Club in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, here Carrie Schneider remade Diego Velázquez’s 1656 painting Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), an icon of Western art; the title, Las Bebidas (The Drinks) puns on that of the original. Schneider translates the complex interplay of gazes and social relations in Velázquez’s canvas into a portrait of 21st-century hipster malaise. Schneider holds court in one booth, cigarette in hand, while the other subjects of the work appear only in partial or profile views.
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