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June Issue 2008
Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro,
NC, Features Works by Dawoud Bey
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University
of North Carolina - Greensboro, in Greensboro, NC, will present
the exhibit, Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey,
from June 15 through Sept. 7, 2008.
For the past fifteen years, Bey has made striking, large-scale
color portraits of students at high schools across the United
States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social, and
ethnic spectrum, Bey creates compelling portraits of contemporary
youth that transcend stereotypes. The forty photographs included
in this exhibition are accompanied by personal statements that
are alternately touching, humorous, and harrowing. Together the
words and images in Class Pictures deepen our appreciation
for young adults and the challenges they face in the twenty-first
century.
It is Bey's hope to create a "portrait of American youth in its various social and human dimensions. I believe that such a group of photographs - with the attendant texts - will constitute a significant record and examination of our timeRather than viewing young people through a lens of social problematics that generalizes the individual, I intend to make a rich and complex description of these subjects."
Dawoud Bey (born 1953, New York) earned his MFA from Yale University School of Art and is professor of photography at Columbia College in Chicago. He has been featured in numerous exhibitions - including a mid-career survey at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1995 - and has received several awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA.
Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey is organized by Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery at 336/334-5770 or visit (www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu).
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