Portfolios | Carrie Mae Weems

Color image of boarded up store front with paint splotches covering graffiti in black frame

Carrie Mae Weems: Selected Works

Over the course of forty years, Carrie Mae Weems has built a body of work incorporating photographs, text, installation, and video, focused on the relationships between personal experience, identity, and class, and the larger systems of power that shape our lives.

Carrie Mae Weems, All the Boys (Profile 1), 2016

two archival pigment prints, 61-1/2 x 47-1/2 inches (each framed) [156.2 x 120.7 cm], edition of 5 + 2APs

Framed artwork consisting of a column of three adjacent framed photographs and a framed text panel adjacent to the top image. The images depict homes in West Africa, with stairways leading to the tops of homes. — Carrie Mae Weems, Stairways to Heaven, 1993

three gelatin silver prints with text panel, 20-3/4 x 20-3/4 inches (each framed) [52.7 x 52.7 cm], edition of 10 + 2 APs

Framed black and white photograph of three people seated on a pedestal lit by a spotlight in a darkened room — Carrie Mae Weems, Mourning, 2008

pigment print, 61-1/2 x 51-1/2 inches (framed) [156.2 x 130.8 cm], edition of 5 + 2APs

Framed black and white photograph of suited figure with white gloves and top hat wearing a mask depicting a zebra — Carrie Mae Weems, Missing Link (Happiness), from The Louisiana Series, 2003

pigment print, 41-1/4 x 29-1/4 inches (framed) [104.8 x 74.3 cm], edition of 6

Framed black and white photograph of suited figure with white gloves wearing a mask depicting a donkey — Carrie Mae Weems, Missing Link (Liberty), from The Louisiana Series, 2003

pigment print, 41-1/4 x 29-1/4 inches (framed) [104.8 x 74.3 cm], edition of 6

Three framed black and white photographs. In the first, an African American woman stands silhouetted in a doorway; in the second, an African-American man appears outside of the door; in the third, the two embrace, silhouetted in the doorway. — Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Black Love), 1990-92

three gelatin silver prints, 28-1/8 x 28-1/8 inches (each framed) [71.4 x 71.4 cm], edition of 10 + 2 APs

Four framed artworks of black and white storefronts framed by text panels — Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Peanuts), 1992

two gelatin silver prints and two silkscreened text panels on paper, 20-7/8 x 20-7/8 inches (each framed) [53 x 53 cm], approx. 83 inches long installed (overall) [210.8 cm] , edition of 10

Image of a framed black and white photograph depicting a solitary black-clad woman walking through the crosswalk toward an imposing building. — Carrie Mae Weems, Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, 2006

digital chromogenic print, 73 x 61 inches (framed) [185.4 x 154.9 cm], edition of 5 + 2APs

Carrie Mae WeemsPainting the Town #3

2021

pigment print, 58-7/8 x 86-7/8 inches (framed) [149.9 x 221 cm], edition of 3 + 1 AP

Carrie Mae WeemsAll the Boys (Profile 1)

2016

two archival pigment prints, 61-1/2 x 47-1/2 inches (each framed) [156.2 x 120.7 cm], edition of 5 + 2APs

Carrie Mae WeemsStairways to Heaven

1993

three gelatin silver prints with text panel, 20-3/4 x 20-3/4 inches (each framed) [52.7 x 52.7 cm], edition of 10 + 2 APs

Carrie Mae WeemsMourning

2008

pigment print, 61-1/2 x 51-1/2 inches (framed) [156.2 x 130.8 cm], edition of 5 + 2APs

Carrie Mae WeemsMissing Link (Happiness), from The Louisiana Series

2003

pigment print, 41-1/4 x 29-1/4 inches (framed) [104.8 x 74.3 cm], edition of 6

Carrie Mae WeemsMissing Link (Liberty), from The Louisiana Series

2003

pigment print, 41-1/4 x 29-1/4 inches (framed) [104.8 x 74.3 cm], edition of 6

Carrie Mae WeemsUntitled (Black Love)

1990-92

three gelatin silver prints, 28-1/8 x 28-1/8 inches (each framed) [71.4 x 71.4 cm], edition of 10 + 2 APs

Carrie Mae WeemsUntitled (Peanuts)

1992

two gelatin silver prints and two silkscreened text panels on paper, 20-7/8 x 20-7/8 inches (each framed) [53 x 53 cm], approx. 83 inches long installed (overall) [210.8 cm] , edition of 10

Carrie Mae WeemsGalleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna

2006

digital chromogenic print, 73 x 61 inches (framed) [185.4 x 154.9 cm], edition of 5 + 2APs

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