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Join us in celebrating the release of the exhibition catalogue for Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On with a conversation between the artist and publication contributor Lyle Ashton Harris.
About the Speakers:
Joshua Rashaad McFadden works across genres—social documentary, reportage, portraiture, book arts, and fine arts—to critically examine race, masculinity, sexuality, and gender in the United States. Looking to the idea of “being-ness,” he considers the contemporary condition of Black life while referencing US history as a means to rediscover and define the Black self. Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On is an early-career survey of the artist's work. His work has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Wall Street Journal. McFadden is an assistant professor of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice that explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. He is represented in the permanent collections of renowned institutions worldwide and has been exhibited internationally, including most recently in Photography’s Last Century at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story and Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Harris lives and works between New York City and the Hudson Valley, and is a professor of art at New York University.
Join us in celebrating the release of the exhibition catalogue for Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On with a conversation between the artist and publication contributor Lyle Ashton Harris.
About the Speakers:
Joshua Rashaad McFadden works across genres—social documentary, reportage, portraiture, book arts, and fine arts—to critically examine race, masculinity, sexuality, and gender in the United States. Looking to the idea of “being-ness,” he considers the contemporary condition of Black life while referencing US history as a means to rediscover and define the Black self. Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On is an early-career survey of the artist's work. His work has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, and the Wall Street Journal. McFadden is an assistant professor of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice that explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. He is represented in the permanent collections of renowned institutions worldwide and has been exhibited internationally, including most recently in Photography’s Last Century at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story and Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Harris lives and works between New York City and the Hudson Valley, and is a professor of art at New York University.
