Carrie Mae Weems's First UK Solo Show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presents 'Carrie Mae Weems – Colour: Real and Imagined', a selection of works spanning 30 years, including a new print, photographs from the Kitchen Table Series (1990), Roaming series (2006), Colored People grid (late 2000s), and Slave Coast triptych (1993). The press release labels it a 'carefully curated selection' rather than an exhibition, framing it as a sampler rather than a comprehensive survey. This is Weems's first solo show in the UK, following a major museum presentation at the Guggenheim in New York earlier in 2015. The gallery provides a viewing room with literature and films as an appendix. The show includes works like 'Color: Real and Imagined' (2014) and 'Magenta Colored Girl' (1997), which explore language, aesthetics, and identity. The review questions whether the commercial gallery context reduces the work's impact, but concludes the photographs themselves are formidable tools for analysis. The article was published in the January & February 2015 issue of ArtReview.