Dana Hoey at Petzel

Dana Hoey’s photographed cast of her own head looks so lifelike (despite being chipped and mottled), it’s eerie.  Why not just display the cast?  In the photo, the head is perfectly lit to suggest the raking light of a sunset and framed to force a reckoning with the ageless figure.  (At Petzel through March 30th).  

Dana Hoey, Me Dead, inkjet print, 2012.