Carrie Mae Weems - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
  • Since her first photography course at The Studio Museum in Harlem at the age of twenty-one, Carrie Mae Weems has utilized photography, sculpture, text, audio, video, and installation to explore and re-contextualize cultural identity and relationships. In particular, she has harnessed the photographic medium’s power to help dispel cultural myths. Presented here is a portrait from her series Colored People, in which Weems paired brightly toned photographs with classifying labels. In doing so, Weems underscores the restrictive and outdated social values assigned to skin tones and labels – proudly reclaiming them with their new colorful iterations. 

     

    Weems’s powerful work is in collections around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Tate Modern, London

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    • Description

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    • Provenance

      Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

    • Literature

      Yale University Press, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, p. 75

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Magenta Colored Girl

1997
Toned gelatin silver print with Prestype and frame.
15 3/8 x 15 1/4 in. (39.1 x 38.7 cm)
Overall 31 x 31 in. (78.7 x 78.7 cm)

Signed, dated, and numbered 2/5 in pencil on the verso.

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Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024