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The Jack Tilton Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photography, video, and film by artists Carolee Schneemann, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jenny Perlin. Bringing together selected works dating from the 1960s to the present, the show traces a trajectory of artistic practice that moves from the artist’s body boldly featured inside the frame to the seemingly self-effacing interventions performed off-camera. The exhibition will be on view throughout the gallery’s two floors from September 21 through October 29. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, September 21, from 6 top 8 pm. This is the second exhibition in the Jack Tilton Gallery’s new space on the Upper East Side.
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is internationally known for her work as an African American artist who recasts conventions of the documentary image to explore issues of race, class, and gender. In “Sited for Record,” a recent project commissioned by the Beacon Cultural Foundation, Weems employs documentary methods to investigate the changing landscape and shifting racial demographics of Beacon, New York, as it transforms from depressed, post-industrial city to burgeoning cultural destination. While Weems’s original project also features video and sound installations, this exhibition will focus on a single video and selected photographs that include images of Beacon’s Main Street, the waterfront, area arts institutions, and prisons. Dressed in black, barefoot, and with her back to the camera, the artist appears in some photos; whether standing before a Gothic Revival building or the minimalist compound of Dia Beacon, she has the appearance of an otherworldly apparition or displaced person who surveys a strange land.
