Carrie Mae Weems

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

Historia

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.

Películas

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.
Arte negro: en ausencia de luz
Arte negro: en ausencia de luz
Self
Una introducción al trabajo de algunos de los artistas visuales negros más destacados que trabajan en la actualidad, inspirada en la histórica exposición de 1976 del difunto David Driskell, "Dos siglos de arte afroamericano".
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.