Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Series Text

Kitchen table series is a special volume dedicated to carrie mae weems s celebrated body of work made in 1990.

Carrie mae weems kitchen table series text. Welcome to the official website of artist carrie mae weems. Carrie mae weems reflects on her seminal kitchen table series decades after she photographed it just in time for its first stand alone book release. The kitchen one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women frames her story revealing to us her relationships with lovers children friends and her own. Weems remarks of kitchen table in particular it has clearly touched the lives of a great many people.

November 11 2017 december 21 2017. Lauren haynes crystal bridges museum of american art and dr. Go back to the beginning. 11 works carrie mae weems s the kitchen table series 1990 is among the most significant photographic achievements in contemporary art.

The book features for the first time all 20 photographs and 14 text panels from kitchen table series one of the artist s earliest series and includes essay contributions by sarah lewis and adrienne edwards. The kitchen table series 1990. The hardcover book reproduces the entire series of 20 photographs and 14 text panels. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up kitchen table series tell a story of one woman s life as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen.

The intimate and often political content of this narrative series finds common ground around the kitchen table transcending the separation of domestic and civic space. Performance in the text of carrie mae weems kitchen table series the recent publication of kitchen table series provides a welcome opportunity to revisit the pioneering and iconic series by the artist carrie mae weems. Kitchen table series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the american artist carrie mae weems. The resulting body of work became the kitchen table series 1990 both a landmark in weems s career and in the lives of others.

It touches a chord and speaks to something that s fairly universal. In 20 photographs and 14 text panels weems features herself in carefully staged scenes around the same kitchen table revealing intimate moments of everyday life such as laughing with. Considered to be one of the artist s most important bodies of work carrie mae weems kitchen table series interweaves themes of race class gender friendship love loss power and motherhood.