UPCOMING COMMUNITY
Alanna Fields in Conversation with Irene Antonia Diane Reece
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UPCOMING COMMUNITY
Alanna Fields in Conversation with Irene Antonia Diane Reece
Please join BAXTER ST at our new location, 154 Ludlow Street, on June 28th from 12 PM – 2PM for a conversation between artists Irene Antonia Diane Reece and Alanna Fields on the occasion of the release of Fields’ new monograph, Unveiling (Meteoro Editions, 2025). The conversation will be followed by a signing and copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Unveiling is a conceptual monograph comprised of past and recent artworks connected to Alanna Fields’s projects, As We Were, Audacity, Mirages of Dreams Past, and Constellations: Our Love Was Deeply Purple. These series are center on Fields’s ongoing research on Black Queer Archives and the power of representation and speculation through vernacular imagery. As both a book and an object, Unveiling symbolizes the complexities and limitations of visibility and invisibility, while breaking open veils that reveal audacious queering. Meditating on Black Queer memory, vulnerability, and desire, this monograph brings to focus everyday representations of Black Queer life in the U.S. between the 1920s and 1990s. The design of the publication, developed in collaboration with Alanna Fields, Brian Paul Lamotte, and Pablo Lerma of Meteoro Editions, is closely connected to the tactility and visual properties of Fields’s original artworks, where painting, layering, repetition, fragmentation, opacity, and transparency become intermediaries to unveil the identities of the figures pictured. Throughout the immersive imagery in Unveiling, there lies whispers of poems and reflections on queer introspection by Sumia Juxun that thread and weave each section of the book together in a beautiful cadence.
Alanna Fields (b. 1990, Maryland, USA) is a mixed-media artist and archivist whose work both deconstructs and reconstructs Black queer memory and history through a multidisciplinary engagement with photographic archives. Fields’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Paris Photo, Art Basel Miami, Felix Art Fair LA, and Expo Chicago. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, The High Museum of Art, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art. She has presented solo exhibitions at The Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art and Baxter Street Camera Club of NY and participated in group exhibitions at Yossi Milo Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, Fragment Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, and the Silver Eye Center for Photography, among others.
Fields received her MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute and has given lectures on her work at the Aperture Foundation, Light Work, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design at The New School, Syracuse University, and Stanford University. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant recipient who has participated in residencies at Silver Arts Projects, Light Work, Baxter St. CCNY, Fountainhead Arts, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, among others. Her work has been commissioned by and featured in major publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Aperture Magazine, and FOAM Magazine. In 2025, Fields released her first monograph “Unveiling” which spans her work on Black queer archives.
Irene Antonia Diane Reece, a Houston, Texas native, identifies as a contemporary artist and visual activist. The topics surrounding her work are racial identity, African diaspora, social injustice, family histories, re-memory, and mental and community health. With a background in photography and image-making, Reece’s journey through lens-based work has transformed her art practice. To become critical of the tools we use to create art to decentralize the white gaze, engage/deconstruct the violence of the camera, protect Black archives, and centralize/celebrate the complexities of Black identities.
Previous shows include FREIZE No.9 Cork Street (London, UK), FOTODOK (Utrecht, Netherlands), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), Vogue Festival (Milan, IT), Dak’Art: La Biennale de Dakar (Dakar, SN). Her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, NYT, Vogue, Art Papers, OVER Journal, and FOAM Magazine. Additionally, contributions to The Photographer’s Green Book, ProPublica, and the ‘You Are Your Best Thing’ Anthology by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown.