Tendered Self from the collection of TAG Gallery

Tendered Self

3D-printed polymer, hand-finished with aerosol enamel spray paint

21 x 16 x 13 in (53.34 x 40.64 x 33.02 cm)

$4,000

Available

Tendered Self is an upper-body bust of a woman whose head is replaced by a cash register, compressing identity into a single apparatus of exchange. The truncation of the figure intensifies the metaphor: the work does not depict a full body moving through the world, but a torso presented as specimen, as product, as display. Where a face would normally offer interiority and recognition, the sculpture installs a machine built to total, receipt, and record, turning personhood into transaction.

The title sharpens the critique. “Tendered” suggests both payment and the act of offering, implicating the ways the self can be submitted to evaluation, priced, and approved. With the register occupying the site of thought and speech, the bust proposes that subjectivity is being formatted by commerce, that value becomes the primary language available for self-definition. The register reads as a surrogate mind, reducing complexity to categories and numbers, and positioning the viewer as consumer and assessor.

Tendered Self functions as a portrait of commodified femininity and the psychological costs of living under constant appraisal. It asks what remains tender, private, or intact when the mechanisms of purchase and judgment replace the very features through which we understand a person.

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About the artist

Austin Lubetkin

b. 1996

Austin Lubetkin is a visual artist and software engineer whose work is shaped by his experiences of autism and synesthesia. He sees language, sound, and emotion as colors and patterns, and translates this sensory crossover into bold, graphic compositions. Using the visual language of advertising, social media, and luxury branding, his work explores how identity, beauty, and neurodivergence are packaged, judged, and sold. Lubetkin is a member of the international artists association. Lubetkin's work has been exhibited at galleries and museums across the United States including recent exhibits at the Sasse Museum and Awita Gallery and in international exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art and Red Dot in Basel, Switzerland. He has also served as both curator and featured artist for an exhibition at the Orlando Science Center, focusing on the intersection of technology and perception. In May 2026, Lubetkin will be curating a group show exploring the experiences of artists with autism at TAG Gallery

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