September 21, 2012–January 13, 2013 | Exhibition
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
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Carrie Mae Weems. A Broad and Expansive Sky—Ancient Rome, 2006. From the Roaming series. Digital c-print, 73 x 61 in. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
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Sun, Apr 8, 2012
Carrie Mae Weems is a socially motivated artist whose works invite contemplation on issues surrounding race, gender and class. Increasingly, she has broadened her view to include global struggles for equality and justice. This retrospective, which is composed of more than 150 objects—primarily photographs but also written texts, audio recordings, fabric banners and videos—will provide an opportunity to trace the evolution of Weems’s career over the last 30 years. Although she employs a variety of means and addresses an array of issues, an overarching commitment to better understanding the present by closely examining history and identity is found throughout her work. A notion of universality is also present: while African-Americans are typically her primary subjects, Weems wants “people of color to stand for the human multitudes” and for her art to resonate with audiences of all races.
This exhibition is organized by the Frist Center and curated by Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez.
The exhibition will travel to the Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art: Feb–May 2013; to the Cleveland Museum of Art: June 30–Sept. 15, 2013; and to the Guggenheim Museum Oct. 18, 2013–Jan 19, 2014.
A full-color, illustrated catalog will be published by Yale University Press with essays by leading and emerging scholars.