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Photographer Wendel White will discuss his practices and approaches to the story in a conversation with Keith Miller, curator of NYU’s Gallatin Galleries, on Tuesday, September 21 at 6:30 p.m.
To register for this virtual lecture, please visit the event page.
For over four decades, White’s photography has explored forgotten and violent realities that make up racial history in the United States. In their conversation, White and Miller will consider several White collections, including Manifest, Schools for the Colored, and Red Summer.
“Wendel White’s photography is designed to address issues of memory, time, and power in a way that rethinks both history and the African American experience,” observes Miller.
- Manifest, a collection of photographic representations of objects, documents, photographs, and books held in various public collections across the United States, illuminates and preserves the nuances of African American history through time, and confronts slavery, segregation, and civil rights.
- Schools for the Colored shows the architecture and landscapes of formerly separate school buildings along the northern border of the Mason-Dixon Line. Following the concept of the giant veil from WEB Dubois, White treats the landscape with a “white veil” while the buildings remain highlighted. When the building no longer exists, White inserts a silhouette of the original school or an imaginary outline of what it might have looked like.
- Red Summer is a response to the violent racial conflict in the United States between 1917 and 1923. Each print consists of a photograph of the location where these events took place and an accompanying newspaper fragment. The contrast between the traumatic injustices that once happened and the seemingly calm environment that exists in these landscapes today reveals the immense weight that time and place have in black history.
Selected images and captions from White’s work are available on Google Drive.
Wendel A. White has had over 40 solo exhibitions since 1984 and has received grants, grants, and awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography, the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a New Works Photography Fellowship from En Foco, Inc. He holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in Photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White taught photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York; the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and the Arts; the International Center for Photography; and the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University.
Keith Miller has been the curator of the Gallatin Galleries since it opened in 2008. Before that, he was founding curator of the SAC Gallery at Stony Brook University from 2001 to 2008 and has curated over 40 thematic gallery and museum exhibitions. His curatorial practice begins with the premise that the gallery is a place for engaged political discussions. He has been a part-time professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU since 2006 and received the Gallatin School Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015 and a Jerome Fellow in 2014 and works as a filmmaker, artist and curator. His paintings and videos have been featured in various solo and group exhibitions around the world.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE:
The Gallatin Galleries, housed in New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, showcase innovative and comprehensive work that combines various forms of artistic practice with topics that span economic, racial, and social justice. Founded in 2008 and curated by Keith Miller, the galleries host complex and compelling exhibitions that integrate video, photography, sound, painting, and sculpture, illuminating the work of both emerging and established artists, while also highlighting the interdisciplinary academic mission of the Gallatin School. For more information, please visit his website.
CONTACT:
Keith Miller, curator
The Gallatin Galleries
km96@nyu.edu
212.998.7322
1 Washington Square
New York, NY 10003
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