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Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)
Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)
Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)
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Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)

Kitchen Table Series

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Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)
Kitchen Table Series
signed and numbered 'Carrie Mae Weems 3/10' (on the colophon)
twenty platinum prints and fourteen text sheets, with original portfolio
each platinum print: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm.)
each text sheet: 11 x 11 in. (27.9 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1990 and printed in 2003. This work is number three from an edition of ten plus two artist's proof and is accompanied by the original portfolio box.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Literature
S. Lewis, ed., Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series, Bologna, 2016, pp. 10, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30-32, 35, 36, 39, 40-42, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52, 54-56, 59, 60, 63, 64, 67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76, 79, 84, 85 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, PPOW Gallery, The Kitchen Table Series, October 1990 (another example exhibited).
Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts, St. Louis, The Forum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; Los Angeles, California Afro-American Museum; Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, January 1993-April 1995 (another example exhibited).
Nashville, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Oregon, Portland Art Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Stanford University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, September 2012-April 2014, pp. 76-104 and 254-255 (other examples exhibited).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series, September 2017-May 2018 (other examples exhibited).

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Lot Essay

When it debuted in 1990, the Kitchen Table Series established Carrie Mae Weems as one of the most important artistic voices of her generation. Consisting of twenty carefully staged photographs and fourteen accompanying text panels, the series depicts Weems herself as the protagonist in a moving sequence of scenes depicting love, motherhood, friendship and solitude. Each tableau is set at the subject’s kitchen table, a sparse setting that comes alive with manifold meaning and vitality in the artist’s masterful staging. The resulting photographs and texts speak truths about men, women and race, while simultaneously developing a character that is unforgettable in her visual strength and determination. Other examples from this edition are in the permanent Collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln and Centro Andaluz de Artes Contemporaneas (CAAC), Seville.

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