Lyle Ashton Harris : our first and last love / edited by Lauren Haynes and Caitlin Julia Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haynes, Lauren, editor, interviewer.

Rubin, Caitlin Julia, editor, interviewer.

Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965- artist, interviewee.

Tallant, Sally, writer of introduction.

Ankori, Gannit, writer of introduction.

Queens Museum (2013- ), host institution.

Rose Art Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965---Exhibitions.

Harris, Lyle Ashton.

Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965---Criticism and interpretation.

Artists--United States.

Artists.

African American artists.

African American photographers.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Our first and last love

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Gregory R. Miller & Co. ; Queens, NY : Queens Museum ; Waltham, MA : Rose Art Museum, [2024]

Summary:

"Both personal and universal, Harris' oeuvre weaves together legacies of family dynamics, queer histories and Afro-cosmopolitanism. Gathering photographs, assemblages, video installations and archival selections from his celebrated and lesser-known series, Our first and last love charts new connections across the artistic practice of New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965). Informed by an adolescence that unfolded in New York City and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as well as several years spent living in Ghana, Harris explores the complexities of African and African American collective identity while forging his own personal narrative as a Black queer man. This book and its accompanying solo survey exhibition chronicles Harris' approach to representation and self-portraiture while tracing recurrent themes and formal techniques in his work over the last 35 years. Central to this curated selection is Harris' most recent series titled Shadow Works, mixed-media assemblages of photographic prints embedded in Ghanaian printed textiles with cowrie shells, pottery, handwritten notes, clippings of the artist's dreadlocks and other personal ephemera. In both the exhibition and its catalog, these works serve as thematic anchors underscoring Harris' layered approach to his ongoing creative explorations."--Publisher's website

Contents:

Directors' foreword / Gannit Ankori and Sally Tallant

Conversation / Lyle Ashton Harris, Lauren Haynes, and Caitlin Julia Rubin

Inamorato / Nana Adusei-Poku

The feminist, queer, and diasporic idioms of Lyle Harris: the early works / Roderick A. Ferguson

Provocations: on Lyle Ashton Harris' Ektachrome archive / Ariel Goldberg

Ghanaian Textiles in Lyle Ashton Harris' "Shadow works" / Paulette Young.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: our first and last love, co-organized by the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University and the Queens Museum. The exhibition was present at the following venues: Rose Art Museum, February 9-July 2, 2023, Nasher Museum of Art, August 24, 2023-January 7, 2024, Queens Museum, May 19-September 22, 2024.

ISBN:

1941366651

9781941366653

OCLC:

1412203620