tête-à-tête

In dialogue with Muse and curated by artist Mickalene Thomas, tête-à-tête features photographs by ten artists who inspire Thomas including Renée Cox, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Zanele Muholi, and Carrie May Weems.

Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs

Drawing from art history, visual culture, and her community of muses, Mickalene Thomas and the artists of tête-à-tête redefine concepts of beauty and challenge current societal traditions.

Tyler Shields: Past the Present

Contemporary photographer Tyler Shields revisits the historic dye transfer and palladium print processes to create hyper-colored and super-saturated images on a scale never before seen.

Truth or Dare: A Reality Show

Highlighting uncertainty and contradiction, Truth or Dare emphasizes the importance of questioning both knowledge and belief by featuring artists that utilize illusion to entice, entertain, and explore the slippery terrain between fact and fiction, presence and absence, reality and imagination.

Chivas Clem: The Tenderness of The Wolves

The Tenderness of The Wolves documents a maligned subgroup of Americans— disenfranchised, heterosexual, white men. Clem’s photography searches beyond the guarding that these men endure and adorns them with an intimate portrayal of their frailties.

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Photographer Michael Wilson led this project–a selected group exhibition of regional and national photographers with workshops designed to better understand the process of printing photographs in the darkroom.

Impression

Impression is an archive of photos captured during a self-reflection public installation, in which participants sat in front of a mirror and leaned in for a kiss. Artists Janet Creekmore and Ben Jason Neal collaborated on the project to explore ideas of sexuality, gender, self, cultures, and identity.

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