BGuthrie Photos: Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Identify: Wilmer Wilson IV

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Description of Pictures: IDENTIFY: Wilmer Wilson IV
Wilmer Wilson IV (b. 1989, Richmond, Virginia), is recognized internationally for his investigations of race. His practice involves creating a second skin over his body using everyday objects to address the formation of racial identity. In so doing, he confronts the tension in skin’s function to protect and also to expose and make vulnerable. For his National Portrait Gallery commissioned performance, he turns his body into a living sculpture using Crest White Strips adhered to the skin, which is temporarily bleached in the process. This unique, durational performance forces us to consider his vacillation between subject and object. His and our discomfort and ambivalence share a space in this process and are integral to the meaning of the performance as it unfolds.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WIL4A_151010_124.JPG: Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery (middle)
2. WIL4A_151010_173.JPG: Dorothy Moss (Curator of Painting & Sculpture, NPG)
3. WIL4A_151010_200.JPG: Wilmer Wilson IV
4. WIL4B_151010_230.JPG: Jamie Smith, ???, and Leigh Conner (Director of the Connersmith Gallery)
5. WIL4B_151010_450.JPG: Leigh Conner and Kim Sajet (NPG)
6. WIL4C_151010_437.JPG: Putting on the last pieces
7. WIL4C_151010_564.JPG: Peeling it off
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Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
- Moss, Dorothy appears on:
  - 2022_DC_SIPG_KinshipPP_221027 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: Kinship
  - 2020_DC_ObamaP_200223 Politics & Prose -- Taina Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard J. Powell and Kim Sajet ("The Obama Portraits")
  - 2019_DC_Working_Women2_191217 Smithsonian -- Working Women (Day 1.B) Panel: Establishing a Legacy of Leadership at the Smithsonian
  - 2019_DC_Working_Women6_191218 Smithsonian -- Working Women (Day 2 Afternoon.F) Final Remarks by Stephanie Stebich
  - 2019_DC_Working_Women_191218 Smithsonian -- Working Women (Day 2 Afternoon.A) Keynote Address by Fath Davis Ruffins
  - 2019_DC_Working_Women_191217 Smithsonian -- Working Women (Day 1.A) Welcome, Opening Remarks, Keynote Address by Pamela Henson
  - 2019_DC_SIPG_BoocheverP_191025 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
  - 2016_DC_KatzenXT_Alien_160910 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2016D Early Fall Gallery Talk: Daughter of China, Resident Alien w/Hung Liu
  - 2016_DC_FEFA_160514 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Identify: Mar�a Magdalena Campos-Pons
  - 2016_DC_SIPG_BoocheverP_160311 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
  - ...More (List all 11 pages with this person)...
- Sajet, Kim appears on:
  - 2023_DC_ForcesNature_231114 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Event: Forces of Nature: The Future of Environmentalism Panel
  - 2023_DC_SIPG_1898R_230427 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Opening Reception: 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
  - 2023_DC_SIPG_1898PP_230427 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
  - 2023_DC_Behaving_Boldly_230119 Hirshhorn Museum -- Event: Behaving Boldly: Women Leading 21st-Century Museums (w/Melissa Chiu, Kaywin Feldman, Kim Sajet, Stephanie Stebich, and Sarah Thornton)
  - 2022_DC_SIPG_BoocheverPP_220429 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
  - 2020_DC_SIPG_SargentPP_200227 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal
  - 2020_DC_ObamaP_200223 Politics & Prose -- Taina Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard J. Powell and Kim Sajet ("The Obama Portraits")
  - 2019_DC_Working_Women2_191218 Smithsonian -- Working Women (Day 2 Afternoon.B) Panel: Challenging the Mosaic
  - 2019_DC_APG_191117 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Event: American Portrait Gala 2019
  - 2019_DC_SIPG_BoocheverP_191025 DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
  - ...More (List all 24 pages with this person)...
- Wilson, Wilmer IV appears on:
  - 2016_DC_FEFA_160514 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Identify: Mar�a Magdalena Campos-Pons
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