Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Series

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Carrie mae weems kitchen table series. Since photographing the kitchen table series weems s breakthrough project though not her earliest the syracuse new york based artist has produced prolific bodies of photography and video work earned a macarthur genius grant in 2013 and became the first black woman to receive a retrospective at the guggenheim the following year. Steven zucker test your knowledge with a quiz. 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 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.

Kitchen table series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the american artist carrie mae weems. Decades ago in northampton massachusetts carrie mae weems began devoting a part. Made only a few years after carrie mae weems received her mfa in 1984 from the university of california san diego kitchen table series consists of 20 staged photographs depicting weems and others seated at a table. 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.

The kitchen table series 1990. Things said about the artist. Welcome to the official website of artist carrie mae weems. Carrie mae weems s the kitchen table series 1990 is among the most significant photographic achievements in contemporary art.

Untitled woman standing alone carrie mae weems. 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. Lauren haynes crystal bridges museum of american art and dr. Though her output is multifaceted weems has continued to return to the muse figure first introduced in the intimacy of the kitchen a.

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. Kitchen table series is a special volume dedicated to carrie mae weems s celebrated body of work made in 1990. Endowed with a keen sense of how to transform her body into an expressive tool weems used the photographs to tell the story of a woman s life as seen through the intimate space of the kitchen the traditional sphere of women and a site of sanctuary. 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.

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