With a New Armory Exhibition Curated by CCS Bard Director Tom Eccles, the World Is Catching Up to Carrie Mae Weems
For Eccles, Weems’ influence on the world of multimedia art is obvious. “Clearly younger artists today are descendants of Carrie Mae Weems, so it’s a great moment to show a large body of work and to show new work,” said Eccles. It is as though the moment has caught up to Weems’ “relevancy,” which Eccles credits both to the artist and to “a change of a moment when suddenly you realize how relevant that work is.” Weems herself sees the show not as the culmination of a career, but as a next step in her ongoing development. “It is a lifelong struggle and it doesn’t end with the completion of a body of work,” Weems said. “It is a life.”
Post Date: 12-07-2021