Dazed and confused by the possibilities of life, Catwoman turns to a friend and says:
“What am I going to do with my life?” and the friend replies, “Well you could always be an
artist like Carrie Mae Weems.”
- Halle Berry as Catwoman
“Weems has long been one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians.
When she tackles complex subjects in complex ways, the results are . . . deeply stirring.”
- Holland Cotter, The New York Times
“. . . one of the most honored American artists of her generation. Weems asks
inconvenient questions and comes up with unwelcome answers. For that alone, no contemporary
artist’s work is more important.”
- David Bonetti, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“One of the more interesting artists working in the gap between art and politics.”
- Roberta Smith, The New York Times
“ . . . it is Weems’s conviction that radicalism and beauty are complementary, not antithetical,
that gives her work its distinctive edge.”
- Ernest Larson, Art in America
“. . . Weems positions herself as history’s ghost….”
- Nancy Princethal, Art In America
“Weems’s focus on masking and facades underscores the notion that social hierarchies
result from a differential in relations of power, not birthright.”
- Susan Cahan, “Carrie Mae Weems: Reflecting Louisiana”
“Her work speaks to human experience and of the multiple aspects of individual identity,
arriving at a deeper understanding of humanity.”
Dazed and confused by the possibilities of life, Catwoman turns to a friend and says: “What am I going to do with my life?” and the friend replies, “Well you could always be an artist like Carrie Mae Weems.”
- Halle Berry as Catwoman
“Weems has long been one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians. When she tackles complex subjects in complex ways, the results are . . . deeply stirring.”
- Holland Cotter, The New York Times
“. . . one of the most honored American artists of her generation. Weems asks inconvenient questions and comes up with unwelcome answers. For that alone, no contemporary artist’s work is more important.”
- David Bonetti, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“One of the more interesting artists working in the gap between art and politics.”
- Roberta Smith, The New York Times
“ . . . it is Weems’s conviction that radicalism and beauty are complementary, not antithetical, that gives her work its distinctive edge.”
- Ernest Larson, Art in America
“. . . Weems positions herself as history’s ghost….”
- Nancy Princethal, Art In America
“Weems’s focus on masking and facades underscores the notion that social hierarchies result from a differential in relations of power, not birthright.”
- Susan Cahan, “Carrie Mae Weems: Reflecting Louisiana”
“Her work speaks to human experience and of the multiple aspects of individual identity, arriving at a deeper understanding of humanity.”
Mary Jane Jacobs, “Ritual and Revolution”