CAMEO Collection

by Cindy Sherman & Catherine Opie

Cameo takes on one of the oldest forms of portraiture, dating back to ancient Greece when the profiles of the Gods of Olympus were first carved in agate, and completely reimagines it through the vision of two of the most important contemporary artists working today. 

Catherine Opie’s intimate, highly-personal imagery explores universal themes of family and identity, while Cindy Sherman, who ignited an exuberant new body of work when she took her Instagram feed from private to public, invites us to consider the cameo as the original selfie. The formality of the cameo is both revered and turned on its head. 

The cameos are hand-carved in Italy in small editions under the vision of Gino Di Luca, a third-generation cameo maker in Torre del Greco, where shell cameos have been produced for centuries. Set in gold and ornately adorned, each individual cameo conjures up an entire world unto itself—mesmerizing, discrete, and complete.

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