September 14: Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku at the Queens Museum
Queens Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Nana Adusei-Poku on ‘Our first and last love’
Saturday, September 14 from 2–3 PM, the Queens Museum presents acclaimed artist and photographer Lyle Ashton Harris and scholar Nana Adusei-Poku as they delve into topics around self-care and representation explored in Harris’s exhibition, Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love. Harris and Adusei-Poku (who contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue) will discuss the artist’s recent Shadow Works series, mixed-media assemblages of photographic prints embedded in Ghanaian printed textiles with cowry shells, pottery, handwritten notes, and other personal ephemera, underscoring Harris’s layered approach to his practice. Book signing to follow. Please RSVP here.