A spokesperson says---
“...Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists, an exhibition that takes a critical look at the historical definition of the “self-taught artist” in the United States from the early twentieth century to today. Self-Made examines how artists without academic training have depicted, conceptualized, and identified themselves on their own terms.
Foregrounding self-portraits, alter egos, and autobiographies as deliberate strategies of authorship, agency, and artistic intent, the exhibition offers the first sustained museum exploration of artistic self-fashioning within this field with a tightly curated selection of over ninety works..."
