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Naked City Study by Pia Dehne

Illustration for You Dig? Issue 08

Reproductions: Limited edition of 10. Printed on color archival fine art paper. Size: 12 x 23 Inch. 0.5 inch white border.

Ships rolled in a tube. Print only. No frame.

Special editions and sizes available by request.

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The Naked City project is a recreation of the controversial 1968 Jimi Hendrix album cover “Electric Ladyland”. Growing up in the 60’s and seeing this album cover in my parents record collection and the fact that the original photograph was censored in the US, inspired me to replace the groupie models with dynamic contemporary women of New York whom I scouted and photographed. A group photo shoot was executed by photographer Jason Schmid and I, followed by work in my studio producing a large velvet painting, drawings and studies. Paintings on velvet were popular kitsch style in the 1960’s, but this painting’s large scale of 18’ x 9’ gives it a different context with a royal air. The show took place in 2004 at Deitch Projects in NYC.

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Pia Dehne, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been an exhibiting artist for 30 years. Dehne grew up in post-war Germany as part of the punk and new wave scene, exploring music and underground culture directly during her youth. Her work has been the feature of several solo exhibitions in NYC at Deitch Projects, Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, Blackston Gallery, Charles Bank Gallery, IS- Gallery and in Berlin, Germany at Achim Kubinski Gallery and AJL Gallery as well as numerous group shows. She received her Master of Fine Arts in 1994 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Dehne later lived in Berlin before relocating to New York City in 1999. She has lived and worked in the Catskills since 2011.