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May Issue 2007
Cabarrus Arts Council in Concord, NC, Features Works by Michael Cunningham and Others
Michael Cunningham
The Cabarrus Arts Council Galleries will show photographer Michael Cunningham's Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair, on view from May 21 through July 6, 2007. The galleries are located in the Historic Cabarrus Courthouse in Concord, NC.
The exhibition explores the unique relationship that black women have with their hair. Photographed on location in the United States, Ghana and London, the collection showcases real hair and fantasy hair, afros, ponytails and dreadlocks.
The show includes 30, 24" x 30" black and white prints by Cunningham. Each photograph is accompanied by a panel containing the text of an interview by George Alexander. In addition, there is a display of five embellished wigs by Veronica Forbes of Harlem. The photographs and text also are contained in a book published by Doubleday in 2005.
A commercial photographer whose clients include some of the world's largest corporations, Cunningham received wide praise for his exhibition and book Crowns which showed black women in church hats. He attended Winston-Salem State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and also taught photography at Winston-Salem State. His photographs have been shown in numerous galleries and museums including the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum.
The show will be accompanied by a collection of fantasy hats by Tatiana Rakhmanina of West Virginia, wigs by Veronica Forbes of Harlem, figurative sculptures by Patrick Robertson Crawford of Huntersville, NC, jewelry by Mary Filapek and Lou Ann Townsend of Concord and figurative drawings by Ronda Morris of Mount Pleasant, NC.
For more information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the galleries at 704-920-2787 or visit
(www.cabarrusartscouncil.org).
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