*Out of print, final copy*
Carrie Mae Weems’s Sea Island Series chronicles and celebrates a group of African American communities in the Sea Islands off South Carolina and Georgia. The members of these communities, descended from West African people of the Gola tribe who were brought to the United States as slaves beginning in the seventeenth century, developed a culture and language known as Gullah, traces of which still persist. Weems’ images affirm the enduring links between Gullah and traditional belief systems, specifically folklore concerning spirituality in nature.
Carrie Mae Weems is one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. Her work investigates race, family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Weems is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Sea Islands is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.
Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 18 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.