What the Art World Can Learn From Women’s Basketball
"I met LaToya through the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023, the year that I was honored at their gala. In my remarks, I talked about how I was motivated to follow Parks’s example in using art and storytelling to bring visibility to the WNBA. That resonated with LaToya because she is a former basketball player and has always wanted to tell their stories. When we met, we quickly discovered our shared passion for basketball and uplifting women athletes." —Clara Wu Tsai, New York Liberty Owner
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Book Released through Aperture Foundation
The Notion Of Family
Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
Interview by Dawoud Bey.
Essays by Laura Wexler and Dennis C. Dickerson.
In this, her first book, LaToya Ruby Frazier offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political—an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region. Frazier has compellingly set her story of three generations—her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself—against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work documents her own struggles and interactions with family and the expectations of community, and includes the documentation of the demise of Braddock’s only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the history of a place is frequently written on the body as well as the landscape.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier WITNESS
Contemporary Arts Museum Huston
June 22 – October 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, June 21, 2013
LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS features photographs, videos, digital works, and a recent photolithograph series that speak to these conditions. Frazier documents Braddock’s deterioration with an unflinching eye and a gift for communicating through documentary images that connects her to other socially engaged practitioners like American photographers Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. Read more…
LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS is accompanied by a bound, illustrated catalogue including an essay by the exhibition’s curator, Dean Daderko, a checklist of works in the exhibition, and biographic and bibliographic citations
ISBN: 9781933619453
July 2013
18 black-and-white reproductions
36 pages
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Whitney Biennial 2012
The 2012 Biennial features works by approximately 50 artists working in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, dance, and performance. Elisabeth Sussman (co-organizer of the influential, politically provocative 1993 Whitney Biennial) and Jay Sanders provide an insightful joint essay, and a group of art historians and critics contribute entries on common themes and ideas from the represented artists’ techniques and influences. In addition, a significant portion of the catalogue is devoted to original contributions from each of the participating artists, in a unique effort to provide a more experiential understanding of the exhibition.
For more information on the 2012 Whitney Biennial, please visit: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial
Product Details
Series: Biennial Exhibition / Whitney Museum of American Art
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: The Whitney Museum of American Art (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300180365
ISBN-13: 978-0300180367
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 1 x 12.6 inches