Carrie Mae Weems

Birth : 1953-04-20, Portland, Oregon, USA

History

Carrie Mae Weems is considered one of the most important contemporary artists working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her work in the field of photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series.

Movies

The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things
Director
A cyclorama installation where artist Carrie Mae Weems addresses conditions of race in the United States. 'The Shape of Things: A Film in Seven Parts' includes old and new footage projected on a 180 degree curve, reminiscent of 19th-century theatre and spectacle to comment on the “pageantry” and “circus-like” quality of contemporary American political life.
The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things
A cyclorama installation where artist Carrie Mae Weems addresses conditions of race in the United States. 'The Shape of Things: A Film in Seven Parts' includes old and new footage projected on a 180 degree curve, reminiscent of 19th-century theatre and spectacle to comment on the “pageantry” and “circus-like” quality of contemporary American political life.
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Self
An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."
The Madding Crowd
The Madding Crowd
Director
"A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage.
Cornered
Cornered
Director
An installation utilizing two adjoining screens mounted in a corner. On the opposing sides, groups of people protest for and against desegregation during the 1965 Boston riots, the looped news footage slowed to match the tempo of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” the only sound.
Surveillance
Surveillance
Director
A short film connecting contemporary state surveillance to histories of Black insurgency.
People of a Darker Hue
People of a Darker Hue
Camera Operator
People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
People of a Darker Hue
People of a Darker Hue
Editor
People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
People of a Darker Hue
People of a Darker Hue
Director
People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two decades (1981-2004). This dynamic presentation was accompanied by slides of the artist's photographs and excerpts from her video art. The result is a chaptered lecture guided by Weems's seductive voice and passionate presence. The viewer is transported into her world as she details what she is trying to uncover, illuminate, investigate and provoke through her lens.
Afro Chic
Afro Chic
Director
Afro-Chic explores the construction of identity through the presentation of several women wearing exaggerated Afro hairstyles and sassy attire as they strut down an illuminated runway.