Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) was founded in 1895 in Pittsburgh, PA, by Andrew Carnegie as part of the Carnegie Institute. 

This conversation between photographers An-My Lê (2012 Fellow) and Dawoud Bey (2017 Fellow), is a free and public event in conjunction with CMOA's retrospective, An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (March 14 -January 18, 2021) the largest-ever survey of the artist's work. Featuring nearly 120 photographs, this exhibition will reveal connections across Lê's career and provide unprecedented insight into her subtle, evocative images that draw on landscape tradition to explore the complexity of war and conflict.

The program unfolds as a conversation between artists who both work with scale, representation, memory, lived experience, and the traces of history in landscape. The recent turn to this theme in Bey's work serves as a connection point to Lê's longstanding interest in the genre. The relationship between Lê and Bey began when both were MFA students at Yale University. The pair graduated in the same year (1993) and have both gone on to significant careers in visual arts. Today, both artists are forging new paths in this area with their most recent work, much of which stems from their divergent and compelling life experiences.

 

This virtual event invites audiences into the studios of these two artists and provides an intimate glimpse of their most recent work and how their own life experiences are impacting how they view the landscape. Anticipated audiences include visual art and photography enthusiasts, museum members, students from local colleges, and members of community organizations.

To develop and enhance the exhibition, collection, and study of independently produced works of film and video.

To acquire sound equipment for 35mm projectors.

To acquire word processing, computer, and used 35mm equipment.

To support the exhibition "American Landscape Video."