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Year Zero, NIN's sixth studio album, presented a grim sci-fi portait of the year 2022, after a nuclear war between the US and Iran and the ascent of an American "Bureau of Morality".

Trent Reznor to make TV series based on Nine Inch Nails album Sean Michaels 2010

But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.

G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.

G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.

G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.

G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

The work is built around long, lingering close-up takes on an art-historical image: A black-and-white reproduction of a 1548 self portait of the artist Hemessen as she works away at a picture of herself, said to be the first such painting made.

Gopnik's Daily Pic: Matthew Buckingham at Murray Guy Blake Gopnik 2010

Martinez raised the bar with a lifelike self-portait animatronic sculpture that slit its wrists as a performance.

Mat Gleason: The Ten Most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars 2010

But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.

G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010

Martinez raised the bar with a lifelike self-portait animatronic sculpture that slit its wrists as a performance.

Mat Gleason: The Ten Most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars 2010

But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.

G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW) G. Roger Denson 2010