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Stuart Perkins, So Here We Are #36, 2019, archival pigment print, 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm), edition of 8
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Stuart Perkins, If Ancestors Anchor - Laurie's Child #3, 2019, archival pigment print, 6.1 x 8 inches (15.5 x 20.3 cm), edition of 8
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Stuart Perkins, If Ancestors Anchor #2, 2019, archival pigment print, 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm), edition of 8
Exhibition
RICHARD STUART PERKINS: If Ancestors Anchor
2 Apr 2020 – 30 May 2020
Address
- 929 NW Flanders St
- Portland
Oregon - 97209
- United States
Travel Information
- one block from the NW 10th and NW Glisan streetcar stop
Perkins' images attempt to reason with racism, appropriation and assimilation, inviting viewers to examine their own assumptions.
About
If Ancestors Anchor, selections from series of contemporary photographs by New York-based artist Richard Stuart Perkins, exhibits in Upfor's Back Room. Perkins photographs himself in scenes of reductive tropes of black culture, using racially charged props and tableaux. Perkins' images attempt to reason with racism, appropriation and assimilation, inviting viewers to examine their own assumptions.
Born in Oklahoma, USA and raised in Germany, Richard Stuart Perkins creates photographs that question public and private personas. Perkins’ creative process uses interviews, fragmentation, and histories of portraiture, cinema and art, to ask questions about what it means to be an individual in societies that seek to define our lives externally.
Due to COVID-19 health and safety measures, this exhibition is available online only, via our website and Artsy.
