RACE, LOVE, AND LABOR: NEW WORK FROM THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK’S ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Samual Dorsky Museum of Art
August 27 — December 14, 2014
Sara Bedrick Gallery
Latoya Ruby Frazier, Mommy, 2008.
About the exhibition:
It is impossible to separate the history of photography from the history of labor, love and race in America.
This exhibition (…) displays images by artists who understand the needs of labor in the fullest sense of the word: a means through which we birth ourselves anew. (…)
Preston Wadley.
A reflective look at the CPW collection shows how photography, working with a vast range of aesthetics, plays a critical role in the labor of becoming and the work it entails—on the land and within our inner worlds. They function, as Frederick Douglass once reminded us, as images that both record what is and conjure a sense of what could be. What does it mean to work in this lineage? These photographs, each the gift of a moment in time through a unique residency, show us where a future path may lead.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Self-Portrait After.
— Sarah Lewis, guest curator, author, and Du Bois Fellow, Harvard University
With: Endia Beal, William Cordova, Isaac Diggs, Caleb Ferguson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Nikita Gale, Gerard H. Gaskin, Eyakem Gulilat, Tommy Kha, Kathya Maria Landeros, Deana Lawson, Alma Leiva, Yijun Pixy Liao, Gina Osterloh, Dawit L. Petros, Tim Portlock, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Xaviera Simmons, Joanna Tam, and Preston Wadley.
Caleb Furguson.
Gerard Gaskin.
(see interview with Gaskin on Africanah.org)