A continuing grant to the Columbus Museum of Art for their upcoming exhibit February 19th-May 20th. “Original CMA exhibition Family Pictures explores the ways in which black photographers and artists have portrayed a range of familial relationships, from blood relatives to close-knit neighborhoods to queer communities.
Beginning with Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes’s groundbreaking 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life,the exhibition gathers photographic series, installations, and videos by an intergenerational group of artists, including John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson,
Lorraine O’Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems. 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. As Lawson says of her work, “Every day is political, the everyday is personal.” (From CMOA Connect Magazine)
(photo credit Deana Lawson, Mohawk Correctional Facility: Jazmin & Family, 2013. Pigment Print. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Museum Purchase with funds provided by The Contemporaries.) www.columbusmuseum.org
