Carrie Mae Weems
Painting the Town #22,
Lot closes
June 7, 03:49:00 AM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 100,000 USD
Starting Bid
80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carrie Mae Weems
b. 1953
Painting the Town #22
Executed in 2021.
Archival pigment print
Edition 5 of 5 + 1 artist's proof
58 x 87 in. (147.3 x 221 cm)
Framed: 59 x 88 x 2 in. (149.9 x 223.5 x 5.1 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
Multidisciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953, Portland, OR; lives in Syracuse, NY) centers her practice on the entwinement of Black identity and complex social politics. In her series Painting the Town, Weems photographed public spaces where the city of Portland—her hometown—had painted over anti-racist graffiti. The closely cropped images reference abstract expressionist painting and capture the tensions between local authorities and protesters, while also speaking to the exclusion of Black artists from the art historical canon. Recent solo exhibitions of Weems’s work have been presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; and Barbican Centre, London, among others. Her work has been featured in significant group exhibitions including presentations at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her work is held in the MCA Collection and numerous other museum collections worldwide.