Long Beach-based fine art photographer Liezel Rubin has been pushing creative limits for years. Her new work, currently on exhibition at MADE in Long Beach through Sunday, November 29, is a thoughtful rumination on life and death.
Sparked by the unexpected loss of a close friend, the work explores the blurry lines between dream and wakefulness, fantasy and reality and the transition from life to after-life. Like nearly all of her work, it reflects her wit and her willingness to gaze deeply at things that make some people uncomfortable.
In this video interview, Rubin speaks about her earlier work, which depicted elaborate stagings of fetish models interacting with clowns and little people, her lifelong fascination with circus entertainers, and her journey to this new way of working.
You can read an interview with her from 2001 here.
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For more information about MADE in Long Beach, call 877.752.1550, or visit MADELB.com.
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