Photographer Jaimie Warren’s first solo museum exhibition, You Are So Beautiful in the Face, opens at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art this Friday. Warren’s photographs are theatrical and fun with a caricature-esque quality that dispels common conceptions of the photographic portrait.  Her work is inevitably compared to that of Cindy Sherman, however Warren’s theatricality is more reflexive of her true dramatic and multifaceted personality than to pay homage to identity of an “other”.  Aperture released her first monograph, Don’t You Feel Better as part of the Tiny Vices series, curated by Tim Barber.

Jaimie Warren: You Are So Beautiful in the Face
Friday, June 5–Saturday, October 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 2009  6:00–9:00 pm

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, Missouri
(816) 753-5784

All images courtesy Elliot Black.

Hear WNYC Art Cult blog here.

Tinyvices Books.

©   Jaimie Warren

Tinyvices Book Party

Thursday, October 16, 2008

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

This Thursday, join Aperture as it co-hosts the launch of Tinyvices: Vol. 1-5. This new series of monographs, published by Aperture in a limited-edition of 1,000 copies each, features five of the most promising photographers found on the widely popular website tinyvices.com.  The featured photographers are Kenneth Cappello, Allan MacIntyre, Jason Nocito, Robin Schwartz, and Jaimie Warren, who will all be present at the event. Tim Barber, founder and curator of tinyvices.com, will be in attendance as well.

For more about the books, click here.