The presentation and community programming in Los Angeles are made possible with major support from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation. Additional support is provided by Wege Foundation, Agnes Gund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Eenhoorn, LLC. Organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum, with presenting support generously provided by MillerKnoll. Weems, who is now 64, first picked up a camera at the age of 18 and over the decades has recast the ways in which black women have been portrayed in images. Carrie Mae Weems’ Grace Notes: Reflections for Now plays at University theater Written by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems as a way to grapple with the many issues of race and violence in America today, 'Grace Notes: Reflections for Now' played at the Yale Repertory Theatre on Sept. This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish.Įsta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español. Join a 20-minute tour exploring photographs by artist-friends Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems which address race, class, representation, and systems of power that both speak to Black history and the realities of the human condition.Tours are first come, first served. Her work focuses on the importance of Black women, both in life and in the photographs she produces.
This exhibition brings their work together for the first time. Carrie Mae Weems may well be the best contemporary photographer working today in the field of fine art. Each addresses race, class, representation, and systems of power through their unique lenses, creating photographic series grounded in the history and everyday realities of Black Americans while also speaking to the broader human condition. For more than 45 years, the two photographers have maintained a friendship and artistic dialogue that continues to this day, challenging and inspiring the other. Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in Harlem in 1976 when both were twenty-three years old.
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