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Clth, 10 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 100 color. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/10/2024
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WORLD | EXHIBITION SCHEDULEWaltham, MA
Rose Art Museum, 02/09/23–07/02/23
Durham, NC
Nasher Museum of Art, 08/24/23–01/07/24
Queens, NY
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| | | Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last loveForeword by Gannit Ankori, Sally Tallant. Text by Nana Adusei-Poku, Roderick A. Ferguson, Ariel Goldberg, Paulette Young. Conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris, Lauren Haynes, Caitlin Julia Rubin.
 Both personal and universal, Harris’ oeuvre weaves together legacies of family dynamics, queer histories and Afro-cosmopolitanismGathering 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.
PRAISE AND REVIEWSThe New York Times: Arts Holland Cotter A data-dense, visually compelling archive, not just of one life but, as seen through that life, of the social and political history of Black queer culture in the post-Stonewall years. New Yorker Vince Aletti As tender and touching as it is raspingly raw. Paper Magazine Harry Tafoya With 'Our First and Last Love,' the audience has access to almost every version of Harris as he's continually found new ways to look in and reach out. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/14/2024 Saturday, September 14 from 2–3 PM, the Queens Museum presents acclaimed artist and photographer Lyle Ashton Harris and scholar Nana Adusei-Poku as they delve into topics around self-care and representation explored in Harris’s exhibition, Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Harris and Adusei-Poku (who contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue) will discuss the artist’s recent Shadow Works series, mixed-media assemblages of photographic prints embedded in Ghanaian printed textiles with cowry shells, pottery, handwritten notes, and other personal ephemera, underscoring Harris’s layered approach to his practice. Book signing to follow. Please RSVP here.
continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/10/2024 Saturday, August 10, from 4–5:30 PM, Martha’s Vineyard Museum presents artist Lyle Ashton Harris in conversation with Lauren Haynes, Head Curator at Governors Island Arts. Their conversation, moderated by James Powell, will reflect on Harris’ recent Queens Museum exhibition, co-curated by Haynes, and the accompanying book, Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. They will also discuss the intersection of Harris’ artwork with contemporary social and political themes, highlighting his personal narratives of struggle and moments of self-discovery. Book signing to follow. Register and purchase tickets here.
continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/12/2024 Featured spreads are from Our first and last love, the gorgeous new catalog to Lyle Ashton Harris’s Queens Museum survey—on view through September 22, en route from Rose Art Museum and the Nasher Museum. Titled after a multi-artwork-spawning 1990s fortune cookie that read, “Our first and last love is … Self-love,” the book contains work from across Harris’s career, addressing themes of race, family, gender and sexual identity, among others. When asked by co-curator Caitlin Julia Rubin what that phrase has meant to him, Harris replies, “Clearly the message had a strong impact on me. In the early 1990s the question of narcissism may have come up in a disparaging way in critiques of the photographic work that I was producing at CalArts. Nonetheless I think what the fortune cookie conveyed to me at the time—the necessity of loving care for oneself—has contributed to making me who I am as an artist, and its message is still relevant today. In thinking about how it may have influenced my artwork, self-love has served as a support to sustain me while engaging difficult issues… Still, in keeping with how I felt more than three decades ago, I can see how that Chinese fortune cookie message somehow recurrently sustained me through acts of resistance, especially in settings where same-sex love remains a crime, such as in Ghana, where rather than merely negotiating those social constraints, I remained unabashedly ‘out.’ In a way, I think that ‘Our first and last love is … Self-love’ articulates a creative ethic that implicitly informs the multivalent ways I negotiate diverse social spaces and explore various creative mediums, and continues to resonate even more strongly with me in the present day.” continue to blog | |  | Gregory R. Miller & Co./Queens Museum of Art/Rose Art MuseumISBN: 9781941366653
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