carrie mae weems

so, carrie mae weems--who by the way is totally awesome--taught at the SCAD atlanta branch this past winter quarter. she came here to savannah the week of my birthday and did a lecture that i missed because it was the one night of the week that i had to work :( but, her show opened on my birthday in the gallery that shares a building with the library. so i went over right after work on friday.

first--when i went to syracuse, we still had alcohol at art openings. not a lot, but still there was wine. here there was a choice of water or sweet tea! funny! also crab cake hors d'euvres and some gross little chocolate petit fours. but this is all beside the point.

the exhibit is only okay. this is not the carrie mae weems that i truly enjoy. it was a project she did with her class, their take on human rights around the world. for example, a photo entitled something like "ms. bhutto" with a girl dressed in a white salwar kameez with a headscarf and big sunglasses sitting on the back of a convertible car and waving. not very moving to me. so basically, the show was photographs of the students staging poses of "human rights" moments and her photographing them on an unchanging studio backdrop with a clock in the background. just not really moving, i don't think. some of them were really good, but on the whole i was disappointed. sad...

anyway, if anyone is interested, check out the SCAD press release here: http://www.scad.edu/news/2008/carrie-mae-weems.cfm