In this iconic and evocative work, released as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood in New York City, Sherman becomes a pregnant urban woman. The Montclair Art Museum (which has an example of this work in their permanent collection) eloquently described this piece: “It seems related to a recent series of color portraits of women confronted with middle age and their own distorted notions of beauty. With poignancy and humor, this woman seems to convey both

a sense of misspent youth and the dangers of unplanned pregnancy—she simultaneously inhabits the roles of a teenager and an older woman.”

Sherman is one of the most successful living female artists. Since the late 1970s, she has donned an array of personas, disguises and costumes to explore how women are perceived, presented and judged in Western culture.