With her 'Operation: Activate' project Carrie Mae Weems is making art that truly matters.
Artist Aims Latest Campaign at Senseless Gun Violence in Syracuse
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
For more than 25 years, artist Carrie Mae Weems has earned a well deserved reputation for making art that highlights issues of privacy and intimacy in Black life. Beginning with her first project “Family Pictures and Stories” (1981-1982) to perhaps her most well known exhibition “The Kitchen Table Series,” (1990), currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, Weems has made the business of Black life behind closed doors an important feature of her art.
Recently Weems has gone against her usual process, mounting an exhibition of public art in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., where she currently lives, addressing the reality of gun violence that is tearing apart the city.
As part of a course that she teaches at Syracuse University, “Art and Civic Dialogue” and work she does with an artists collective that she founded a few years ago called Social Studies 101, Weems created Operation: Activate, 2011, using iconographic images, like those of the Black Panther Party and stark text to challenge the perpetrators of gun violence in the city.
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Artist Aims Latest Campaign at Senseless Gun Violence in Syracuse
by Mark Anthony Neal | TheLoop21
For more than 25 years, artist Carrie Mae Weems has earned a well deserved reputation for making art that highlights issues of privacy and intimacy in Black life. Beginning with her first project “Family Pictures and Stories” (1981-1982) to perhaps her most well known exhibition “The Kitchen Table Series,” (1990), currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, Weems has made the business of Black life behind closed doors an important feature of her art.
Recently Weems has gone against her usual process, mounting an exhibition of public art in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., where she currently lives, addressing the reality of gun violence that is tearing apart the city.
As part of a course that she teaches at Syracuse University, “Art and Civic Dialogue” and work she does with an artists collective that she founded a few years ago called Social Studies 101, Weems created Operation: Activate, 2011, using iconographic images, like those of the Black Panther Party and stark text to challenge the perpetrators of gun violence in the city.
Read the Full Essay @ theLoop21
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