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Location | CAAM Los Angeles, October 19, 2016 – February 19 , 2017 |
Photographer | Genevieve Gaignard, Baby Girl, 2016. Courtesy of Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles |
Smell the Roses... CAAM presents the first museum exhibition of the work of Los Angeles artist Genevieve Gaignard, who deftly uses installation, photographic self-portraiture, and sculpture to explore race, femininity, and class – and their various intersections. The daughter of a black father and white mother in a Massachusetts mill town, Gaignard’s youth was marked by a strong sense of invisibility. Was her family white enough to be white?...