Sarah, 2003 from 'Class Pictures', chromogenic print 40 x 30"

 

Dawoud Bey : Picutres 1975 - 2005
November 2 - December 18, 200
Opening Reception SATURDAY: Nov. 3th 5- 7pm

 

For Immediate Release

 

DAWOUD BEY: PICTURES 1975 - 2005 will be a small survey exhibition of photographs exploring how, over the past thirty-two years, the photographer has explored the human subject. Beginning with his seminal black and white portraits made in Harlem, New York during the mid 1970s with a small hand held camera, and continuing through his recent large scale color portraits of American teenagers, the exhibition gives a sense of this artist's evolving sensibility as he explores his interest in both the photographic process and using that process to represent what he calls, "a compelling physical, emotional and psychological representation" of the human community.

The photographs in DAWOUD BEY: PICTURES, 1975-2005 range the intimate carbon pigment prints of the Harlem USA portfolio made in the 1970s, to large black and white Street Portraits from the 1980s, to large scale multiple panel Polaroid 20X24 works from the 1990s, and recent large scale C-prints with text from the "Class Pictures" project.

Born in New York, Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, USA,” that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among many others. The Walker Art Center organized a mid-career survey of his work, “Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995,” that traveled to institutions throughout the United States and Europe. A major publication of the same title was also published in conjunction with the exhibition. Aperture recently published his latest project Class Pictures in September 2007 and a traveling exhibition of this work that will tour museums throughout the country for five years. The exhibition is currently at the Addison Gallery of American Art through December 30, 2007.

 

For further information please contact Alexis Dunfee at Howard Yezerski Gallery 617.262.0550 Tuesday - Saturday 10-5:30pm