The Cleveland Museum of Art offers a retrospective, “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video” thru September 2013.
“The first section of the exhibition will feature selections from the 1980s and early 1990s that were inspired by the artist’s direct experiences and observations. The next section will feature works made in response to historical situations that have impacted African American identity, as well as that of other disempowered peoples. A third grouping will contain photographs that focus on the role of place in Weems’s examination of the underlying causes and effects of racism, slavery, and imperialism… A notion of universality is present throughout: 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.”
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
The Cleveland Museum of Art Until September 2013
11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio