#CrossingBrooklyn features 100+ works from 35 artists who work in virtually every medium,

#CrossingBrooklyn features 100+ works from 35 artists who work in virtually every medium, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, linked only by place and by an engagement with the modern world. Over the next several weeks, Brooklyn Magazine will be rolling out profiles of ten artists who appear in the exhibit.Deana Lawson has six photographs in Crossing Brooklyn, taken in locales as wide-ranging as Jamaica, Haiti, New Orleans, Brooklyn, and Rochester, where the artist is from. The photos are a selection from a larger series that “looks at the body in different landscapes connected to the African diaspora,” Lawson says. A recently-awarded Guggenheim Fellowship allowed Lawson to expand her inquiry worldwide.Lawson takes large-format portraits that are strikingly intimate, often meticulously composed, and which draw from a range of photographic languages, from the vernacular (e.g. family photo albums) to the formal (e.g. staged scenes with chiaroscuro lighting). The size of Lawson’s photographs has an enveloping effect that counterbalances their intimacy; the viewer is brought into the world of the photograph—shown a tender moment, a disrobed body, a private space—but as a spectator. We are never not looking.More on Deana Lawson and her photography featured in #CrossingBrooklyn here. -- source link
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