Wendel White: Manifest - Opening January 22, 2011

Made in northwest New York State, the images in Manifest reflect Wendel White's growing understanding of the region's unique and overlapping histories of slavery, abolitionism, and spiritualism. White photographed objects, documents, and images throughout the region that relate to the abolition of slavery, Reconstruction, and the civil rights era. These intimate yet monumental images spatially blur the objects, defying easy read or interpretation, veiling and unveiling the residues of slavery and segregation.

Wendel White has exhibited widely. He received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of an En Foco New Works Photography Fellowship, two fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

This exhibition will be on view at the CIIS Main Building, 1453 Mission Street, 4th Floor, from January 13-February 27, 2011.

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