Family Portrait
2013
Archival Digital Print
30" x 45"
Made on a cold January day, I dragged my wife Nancy; our daughter Nina; and our dog Yoshi outside before school to stand in front of my work van to be photographed. The composition pays homage to Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” in presenting our new lives as Midwestern Americans. Standing in front of my work van, this photograph presents the reality of the many roles one has to take on to work as an artist.
charley friedman, copyright