BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Portraits

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Portraits:

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Description of Pictures: A new John Lewis portrait is on exhibit.

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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. SIPGPO_200918_05.JPG: Cupcake Katy Pop star Katy Perry (born Katheryn Hudson, 1984, in Santa Barbara, California) collaborated with painter Will Cotton to design a set inspired by the board game Candy Land. Cotton's work, which draws on art historical sources to explore consumer culture, caught Perry's eye. The artist felt an affinity for Perry as well, describing her as just the kind of subject he wanted to paint: "She's over-the-top, she's very sugary, saccharine." Here, Cotton presents her in a dress by designer Cynthia Rowley. Perry's cheeky pose, wry expression, and flawless appearance playfully hint at the paradoxes she bridges. Crafty and self-aware, she acknowledges that "everything I do is always with a wink." The provocative teenage icon, chart-topping singer, and savvy businesswoman began her career singing gospel music as the daughter of Pentecostal pastors. With Teenage Dream (2010), she was the first to tie Michael Jackson's record of producing five number-one hits from a single album. Will Cotton 2010
2. SIPGPO_200918_09.JPG: Esperanza Spalding, 1984- Born Portland, Oregon Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding electrified the Grammy Awards in 2011 when she won honors as Best New Artist. Having been inspired by Yo-Yo Ma as a child, she played several different stringed instruments before settling on the bass when she was in high school. She released her first album, Junjo, in 2006. Her sixth release, Exposure, was created over seventy-seven consecutive hours, a process that she livestreamed on Facebook in September 2017. Spalding's musical roots reflect her rich cultural heritage: Her father is African American; her mother is Welsh, Native American, and Hispanic; and she herself sings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Sandrine Lee's photograph shows the musician in an old railroad station in Connecticut. In interviews, Spalding has emphasized that music does not only happen in recording studios and concert halls, but also in more intimate, everyday spaces, like the one shown here. Sandrine Lee, 2010, printed 2012
3. SIPGPO_200918_17.JPG: Joy Cho, 1979- Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Joy Cho was listed among Time magazine's thirty "most influential people on the internet" in 2015 and 2016. The graphic design blog she began in 2005 was the start of what Cho has turned into an entrepreneurial wonder. It is now a lifestyle website offering advice and ideas on a variety of subjects, including home decor, entertaining and party planning, and baby and nursery needs. In addition to publishing books on starting a successful blog and the basics of creative design, Cho is also a design consultant for brands such as Target, Johnson & Johnson, and Petco. This portrait is from a group of photographs Rachel Thurston took of Joy Cho and her family at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in October 2013. For Thurston, the setting was a perfect way to depict Cho's "joy," which she conveys through her immensely popular colorful designs. Rachel Thurston, 2013 (printed 2016)
4. SIPGPO_200918_25.JPG: Sandra Cisneros, 1954- Born Chicago, Illinois Sandra Cisneros is the most prominent Latina voice in American literature. She drew upon her experience as the daughter of a working-class Mexican American family in Chicago in her first published work, The House on Mango Street (1984), which earned her the coveted American Book Award and became required reading in public schools and universities across the country. Cisneros was the first Latina to become a MacArthur Fellow (1995), and in 2002 the New York Times and other national newspapers selected her novel Caramelo as a notable book of the year. Cisneros projects herself in different ways in her many existing portraits, as if alluding to her free mind as a writer -- wearing pink wigs or animal print coats, or with her Virgin of Guadalupe tattoo exposed. Here we see her with her dog on the porch of her former residence in San Antonio, smiling at the viewer and wearing native Mexican attire. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2011
5. SIPGPO_200918_29.JPG: Maria Hinojosa, 1961- Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2011
6. SIPGPO_200918_37.JPG: Marta Moreno Vega, 1952- Born New York City Marta Morena Vega is a Nuyorican (a New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent), who grew up in the historically Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem, also known as El Barrio. As a visual artist, Afro-Latina activist, scholar, author, educator, and Yoruba priestess, Vega has dedicated her life's work to shedding light on the experiences and contributions of people of African descent. As the second director of El Museo del Barrio (1972–1976), she described her vision for the museum as "challenging inequality, providing a creative thought process and creative expressions that would lead to solutions with the brilliant eyes of our artists." Then, in 1976, she founded the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, which advocates for and connects Afro-descendent communities. This work led her to co-found the Global Afro Latino and Caribbean Initiative through Hunter College in 2000. In this photograph, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders elegantly captures Vega's strength, determination, and wisdom. This photograph is part of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's series The Latino List, which explores what it means to be Latino in the twenty-first century. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2011
7. SIPGPO_200918_46.JPG: Lou Young, 1952- Born New York City This photograph of the New York City television reporter Lou Young was taken after the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings. Young stands at an intersection adjacent to the WTC site where the media congregated for their stand-up reports from the scene. Young, who worked for the CBS affiliate in the city, is gathering himself as he prepares to go back on the air. His pose evokes a sense of resolution as well as the fatigue and incomprehension that encapsulated the national mood in the direct aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Frank Schramm, 2001
8. SIPGPO_200918_52.JPG: Kurt Cobain; Standing with Evian Bottle Jesse Frohman, 1993 (printed 2018)
9. SIPGPO_201015_01.JPG: The Four Justices Counterclockwise from bottom left: Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930; Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020; Elena Kagan born 1960; and Sonia Sotomayor born 1954 In 1880, Belva Lockwood became the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court. Distinguished jurist Florence Allen was considered for the Supreme Court in the 1940s, but opposition, including from the sitting justices, precluded her nomination. It was not until 1981 that Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. Over ten years later, in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President Clinton. Until 2020, Ginsburg served alongside Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who were nominated to the Supreme Court in 2009 and 2010, respectively. The Cummings commissioned this portrait to recognize the accomplishments of all four justices. Justice O'Connor's office arranged their busy schedules so that they could pose at the same time for Nelson Shanks and his camera. The artist drew on the traditions of Dutch group portraiture, and the setting is based on interiors and a courtyard within the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. Nelson Shanks, 2012 Lent by Ian and Annette Cumming
10. SIPGPO_201015_08.JPG: In Memoriam Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020
11. SIPGPO_201114_04.JPG: Congressman John Lewis, 1940-2020 Born Troy, Alabama "When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something," Congressman John Lewis (1940–2020) remarked in 2019. Born to a family of sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, Lewis spent his life in the vanguard, making what he called "good trouble" by working tirelessly for equality and nonviolent social change. He cofounded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, reinforcing his early dedication to combating injustice. Lewis was one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders in 1961, an organizer of the March on Washington in 1963, and a key figure in the Selmato-Montgomery marches for voting rights in 1965. As a leader of the SNCC, he organized demonstrations to end racial segregation, and as director of the Voter Education Project, he helped secure voting rights for millions of disenfranchised African Americans. Lewis served in President Jimmy Carter's administration before making his first successful run for Congress in 1986. He held his position as the representative of Georgia's fifth congressional district from 1987 until his death. Painted during the final year of his life, this portrait, with its unfinished look, evokes the unending struggle for justice that Lewis made his life's work Michael Shane Neal (born 1968) Oil on linen, 2020
12. SIPGPO_201120_16.JPG: Congressman John Lewis, 1940-2020 Born Troy, Alabama "When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something," Congressman John Lewis (1940–2020) remarked in 2019. Born to a family of sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, Lewis spent his life in the vanguard, making what he called "good trouble" by working tirelessly for equality and nonviolent social change. He cofounded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, reinforcing his early dedication to combating injustice. Lewis was one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders in 1961, an organizer of the March on Washington in 1963, and a key figure in the Selmato-Montgomery marches for voting rights in 1965. As a leader of the SNCC, he organized demonstrations to end racial segregation, and as director of the Voter Education Project, he helped secure voting rights for millions of disenfranchised African Americans. Lewis served in President Jimmy Carter's administration before making his first successful run for Congress in 1986. He held his position as the representative of Georgia's fifth congressional district from 1987 until his death. Painted during the final year of his life, this portrait, with its unfinished look, evokes the unending struggle for justice that Lewis made his life's work Michael Shane Neal (born 1968) Oil on linen, 2020
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