Details

Title

10A Untitled from the Utah series

Artist/Maker

Xaviera Simmons

Date

2010

Medium

Dye coupler print

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with David C. Driskell African American Art Acquisition Fund

Accession #

2010.21

On View

Currently not on view

Xaviera Simmons works at the intersection of performance art and photography. For her Utah series, she staged herself as different figures trekking through the state’s rugged and wild terrain. The works recall iconic images of the westward expansion in early photography and landscape painting of the 1800s, when artists began to explore America’s frontier. In these photographs, she places herself directly into this artistic and historic legacy—an active participant in the documentation of grand vistas surrounding her, with a large-format camera in hand—thus drawing attention to the overlooked and undervalued roles of African Americans in that narrative.

Image Copyright

© Xaviera Simmons