{"id":4912,"date":"2018-08-06T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2018-08-07T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:43:15","slug":"black-artists-perspectives-of-family-community-celebrated-in-new-exhibition-at-milwaukee-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2018\/08\/black-artists-perspectives-of-family-community-celebrated-in-new-exhibition-at-milwaukee-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Artists\u2019 Perspectives of Family, Community Celebrated in New Exhibition at Milwaukee Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

– \u201cFamily Pictures\u201d presents photographs, installations and videos by black artists inspired by the work of Roy DeCarava \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 August 6, 2018 \u2013<\/b> The<\/span> Milwaukee Art Museum <\/b>presents <\/span>Family Pictures<\/i><\/b> September 14, 2018, through January 20, 2019<\/b>, an exhibition that explores the ways in which contemporary black photographers and artists have portrayed a range of familial relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Museum\u2019s collection has great strength in twentieth-century American photography,\u201d said <\/span>Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts Lisa Sutcliffe<\/b>. \u201c<\/span>Family Pictures<\/span><\/i> offers an opportunity to present a more inclusive American story in relation to how we envision the family through diverse artistic perspectives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he work of <\/span>Roy DeCarava<\/b> (American, 1919-2009) is a touchstone for the exhibition. Coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s, DeCarava reacted against what he saw as superficial stereotypes and \u201csociological\u201d studies of his neighborhood by mostly white outsiders. With the aid of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, the artist set out to create expressive photographs of life in his community. In 1955, he published 140 pictures, along with text by Langston Hughes, in <\/span>The Sweet Flypaper of Life<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>a fictional family album that captures genuine moments of domestic life in Harlem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening with Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes\u2019s groundbreaking 1955 book<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>the exhibition gathers photographic series, installations, and videos by an intergenerational group of artists, including<\/span> LaToya Ruby Frazier<\/b>, <\/span>Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson<\/b>,<\/span> and <\/span>Carrie Mae Weems<\/b>. Their images of family life often maneuver between intimate, everyday stories and broader political realities, between the universal human condition and the particular histories of race in the United States<\/span>. <\/span>As Lawson says of her work, \u201cEvery day is political, the everyday is personal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Family Pictures<\/span><\/i> is the sort of exhibition that visitors can appreciate on a number of levels: artistically beautiful, socially meaningful and photographs people can personally connect to,\u201d said <\/span>Margaret Andera, interim chief curator and curator of contemporary art, Milwaukee Art Museum<\/b>. \u201cThe exhibition\u2019s focus on depictions of families nicely rounds out the season of home at the Museum.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Organized by: Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporting Sponsor: <\/b>Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s African American Art Alliance<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibitions in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts sponsored by:
\n<\/span>Herzfeld Foundation and Madeleine and David Lubar<\/span><\/p>\n


\nSupporting events<\/b><\/p>\n

Gallery Talks
\n<\/b>Tues, 1:30 p.m.
\n<\/span>Oct 9, Nov 27, and Jan 15
\n<\/span>With <\/span>Lisa Sutcliffe<\/b>, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts<\/span><\/p>\n

Kahlil Joseph: Black Mary
\n<\/b>Sept 14, 2018\u2013Jan 20, 2019
\n<\/span>The contemporary American filmmaker Kahlil Joseph looked to the haunting black-and-white photography of Roy DeCarava to create his film <\/span>Black Mary<\/span><\/i> (2017), which is presented in conjunction with <\/span>Family Pictures<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Local Luminaries
\n<\/b>Thurs, Nov 29, 6 p.m.
\n<\/span>Visit the exhibition with distinguished guests from the Milwaukee community, including Judge Joe Donald and Cecelia Gore, executive director of the Brewers Community Foundation, as they offer new perspectives for understanding the works on view.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– \u201cFamily Pictures\u201d presents photographs, installations and videos by black artists inspired by the work of Roy DeCarava \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 August 6, 2018 \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum presents Family Pictures September 14, 2018, through January 20, 2019, an exhibition that explores the ways in which contemporary black photographers and artists have portrayed … Black Artists\u2019 Perspectives of Family, Community Celebrated in New Exhibition at Milwaukee Art Museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-featured-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4914,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}