Opening Reception for Zora J Murff: Bold As Brass (or, Third Year Review)
Reception
Opening Reception for Zora J Murff: Bold As Brass (or, Third Year Review)
Wednesday, November 17
5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EDT
Join Aperture and Baxter St at CCNY for the opening reception of Bold As Brass (or, Third Year Review), an exhibition of new sculptures, collages, and images from Zora J Murff, the winner of the first annual Next Step Award.
As the award’s recipient, Murff was given carte blanche to expand his photographic practice by experimenting with image making that actively questions the status quo. Zora J Murff: Bold As Brass (or, Third Year Review) centers around his experiences with anti-Blackness, tokenization, and gaslighting in the art world and academia. The exhibition will be on view from November 17, 2021, to January 8, 2022, at Baxter St’s Main Gallery and will be accompanied by the launch of Murff’s first major monograph, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis), a 220-page book to be published by Aperture with generous support by the 7G Foundation, Baxter St’s partners in the establishment of the Next Step Award.
You may also like
Louis Carlos Bernal’s Intimate Portrayals of the Chicano Experience
For Bernal, who worked on the border between the US and Mexico, photography was a potent tool in affirming the value of communities who lacked visibility and agency.
In Louisiana, a Photographer Charts Storms and Weather as Markers of Time
Virginia Hanusik’s portrait of coastal Louisiana looks beyond narratives of ruin and resilience.