Opening reception: June 6, 2013, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
From June 7 through September 8, 2013.
Over the years, Bey continues to investigate numerous photographic methods to increase his engagement with his subjects, switching from black and white to color, shifting between street photography and studio work, and now working with large-format cameras. His earliest small camera pictures demonstrate a spontaneous orchestration and choreography of human interactions within a specific location, and the fleeting social tensions embedded in them. Bey’s street portraits explore moments of consensual collaboration between the artist and the subjects. With his Polaroid photographs, Bey began his introduction of young people as a central subject.
Bey’s most recent series is Strangers/Community, consisting of large-format photographs of two individuals that, although members of the same socio-geographic community, are unknown to one another. Casually positioned side-by-side, between them are differences in age, race, comportment, gender, etc. – differences which call into question the terms on which community is defined.
Dawoud Bey’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, the Whitney Museum of American Art and others. He has been featured in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including a mid-career survey Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995 organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Bey holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University School of Art and is currently Professor of Art and a Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago, where he has taught since 1998.
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