![]() “With the generosity and wise advice of the artist, the McMullen and faculty curators Robin Lydenberg and Ash Anderson have made the most of this good fortune. “To mount a large number of installation pieces produced over decades by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the most innovative and powerful artists in America today, to have a critical group of faculty from a wide range of disciplines eager to focus scholarly inquiry on that artist’s work, and to display artwork that addresses the most pressing and complex problems in current minds, presents a rare opportunity to a museum,” said McMullen Museum Director and Professor of Art History Nancy Netzer. ![]() Weems has produced a unique body of aesthetically and politically powerful work during the last 30 years, investigating family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power through art, and employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. ![]()
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