Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue | Nov 17 2022 - Jan 22 2023 | Seattle Art Museum

Join a conversation decades in the making. Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue presents over 140 works by two of today’s most significant photo-based artists. Longtime friends and mutual inspirations, Bey and Weems both explore complex visions of Black life in America through intimate portraits, dynamic street photography, and conceptual studies of folklore, culture, and historical sites. Traveling to the streets of Harlem, the coastal Sea Islands, sites of the historical Underground Railroad, and the American South, the work of Bey and Weems explores ideas grounded in the experiences of Black people refracted through issues of gender, class, and systems of power. This exhibition marks the first time their work-the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions-has been shown in dialogue together, taking visitors into their career-long conversations that began when they met in a photography class in 1976.
_
DAWOUD BEY & CARRIE MAE WEEMS: IN DIALOGUE
Nov 17 2022 - Jan 22 2023
Seattle Art Museum
visitsam.org/beyweems