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New Histories: Where Present Meets Past
The Photographer’s Eye Gallery in Escondido will host an exhibit by Alanna Airitam, New Histories: Where Present Meets Past, in which she addresses Black history by exploring society's racial past through a new lens.
Airitam’s critically acclaimed series, The Golden Age, merged the past with the present by featuring Black figures in portraits done in the style of Dutch Renaissance Masters, which challenged racial stereotypes and cast a light on society’s social caste system.
Airitam said the work was inspired by visiting museums and being struck by the absence of Black faces in artwork by historic masters.
“I made the work because I needed it for myself, for the ability to see blackness in a way that wasn’t so overwhelmingly stereotypical and negative,” Airitam said.
The Golden Age portraits have been exhibited in such esteemed institutions as New Orleans Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Ariz., where she is based.
The Photographer’s Eye exhibit will mark the first time that some of Airitam’s art will be shown in San Diego, where she formerly lived and maintains close ties. Works on display will include “Dueling Dogs” from her Ghosts series, “Bananas” and “Watermelons” from Colonized Foods, and portraits from The Golden Age.
The event takes place from Feb. 3 to March 2, on Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery will host Airitam for a meet-and-greet on Feb. 17, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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