Carrie Mae Weems
Painting the Town #21, 2021

Archival pigment print
Frame: 149.9 x 223.5 x 5.1 cm
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Carrie Mae Weems’s critically acclaimed 2021 series’ Painting the Town’ is the artist’s latest body of photography and was recently included in the Barbican Art Gallery 2023 survey coinciding with her current European museum exhibitions at Hasselblad Centre and Kunstmuseum Basel. The work captures shuttered hoardings of stores in Portland, Oregon, where authorities attempted to cover and erase demonstrators’ slogans following the murder of George Floyd. Almost life-size in scale, the photographs present as trompe l’oeil the painted hoardings as abstract paintings.

Other Artworks

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    Carrie Mae Weems
    The In-Between, 1993 - 2022
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    Carrie Mae Weems
    Painting the Town #4, 2021
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    Carrie Mae Weems
    The British Museum, London, 2023
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    Carrie Mae Weems
    Blues and Pinks 4, 2020