An Exhibition of CPW’s Artists in Residence
at Winston-Salem State University’s Diggs Gallery
Gallery Reception: Thursday, August 30, 2018 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Curated by Sarah Lewis
The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce that Race, Love, and Labor, an exhibition of work by CPW’s artists-in-residence, will be on view at Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.
Featured artists include Endia Beal, William Cordova, Isaac Diggs, Caleb Ferguson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Nikita Gale, Gerard H. Gaskin, Eyakem Gulilat, Tommy Kha, Kathya Maria Landeros, Deana Lawson, Alma Leiva, Yijun Pixy Liao, Gina Osterloh, Dawit L. Petros, Tim Portlock, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Xaviera Simmons, Joanna Tam, and Preston Wadley.
Originally curated by Sarah Lewis for a CPW exhibition at the Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY in 2014, the exhibition has since traveled throughout New York State, to Pennsylvania and now to WSSU in North Carolina. Race, Love, and Labor will be shown concurrently with the exhibition Truth Be Told: For Freedoms 50 State Initiative.
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EXHIBITION DATES: August 30 through November 30, 2018
LOCATION: Diggs Gallery is located in the O’Kelly Library at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Diggs Gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm. For group tours, complete WSSU’s guided tour form and email to diggsinfo@wssu.edu. They can also be reached via telephone at (336) 750-2458 and on Facebook @diggsgallery. Special thanks to Endia Beal for bringing this exhibition to WSSU.
It is impossible to separate the history of photography from the history of labor, love, and race in America. A reflective look at the collection shows that a critical function of photography, through a vast range of aesthetics, is the labor of becoming and the work it entails—on the land and within our inner worlds.
–Sarah Lewis
Cover photo: © LaToya Ruby Frazier, from The Notion of Family series (2001-2014), detail.
Joanna Tam, Untitled, from the series “Manner of Delivery,” 2013
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Sarah Lewis is the Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate Modern, London and taught at Yale University School of Art. Her scholarship been published in many journals as well as in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Aperture, Artforum and in publications for the Smithsonian, The Museum of Modern Art, and Rizzoli.
Lewis is also the guest editor of the “Vision & Justice” special issue of Aperture (Summer 2016) and author of the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery. Lewis’ board service includes the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and Creative Time. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard, an M. Phil from Oxford in Economic and Social History, and her Ph.D. in History of Art from Yale. She lives in Cambridge, MA and New York City, and is assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Originally shown under the title Race, Love, and Labor: New Work from the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Artist-in-Residency Program, the exhibition opened at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in 2014. This exhibition project is an excellent example of curatorial collaborations between CPW, other nonprofits and museums, drawing from CPW’s artist-in-residence program for artists of color, and its permanent print collection. These exhibitions have their genesis in the Dorsky’s longstanding relationship with CPW, which began in June 1995 when CPW delivered 895 photographs on long-term loan to the SUNY New Paltz campus. Since then, the collection has grown to more than 1,800 objects.
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanied the exhibition, including a curatorial statement by curator Sarah Lewis, and texts by Dorsky Museum Director Sara Pasti and former CPW Director Ariel Shanberg. Designed by William van Roden, the catalogue was published by the Dorsky Museum and distributed through SUNY Press. Major funding for the publication was provided by the Howard Greenberg Photography Endowment at The Dorsky Museum.
Catalogue design by William van Roden
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Race, Love, and Labor
organized by Sarah Lewis
New Paltz, NY
Sara Bedrick Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz
August 27 – December 14, 2014
Albany, NY
University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York
February 2 – April 2, 2016
Woodstock, NY
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
July 23 – October 16, 2016
Boston, MA
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
November 18, 2016 – January 28, 2017
Stony Brook, NY
Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University
September 12 – October 21, 2017
Winston-Salem, NC
Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University
August 30 – November 30, 2018
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Interested in bringing Race, Love, and Labor to your gallery? Please contact CPW at 845-679-9957.