PAST CONVERSATION
Alanna Fields and Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
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PAST CONVERSATION
Alanna Fields and Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
To commemorate the final day of 2020 Workspace Resident Alanna Fields’ exhibition, Baxter St is pleased to host an artist-on-artist conversation between Workspace Resident Alanna Fields and artist and former Workspace Resident Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. on Wednesday, June 9th, at 6pm. Fields’ show, Mirages of Dreams Past, is on view from May 5th – June 9th, 2021.
This conversation is free to attend and will take place over Zoom.
Alanna Fields (b. 1990) is a multi-media artist and archivist whose work examines the dialogue between black queer bodies in the photographic space through gesture, and the negotiation between legibility and masking. Fields work has been featured in exhibitions at UNTITLED Art Fair in Miami, MoCADA, Pratt Institute and the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center. Fields is a 2018 Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar and 2020 Light Work Artist-in-residence. She received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2019 and has given talks at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Parson’s New School. Fields lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Fields is represented by Assembly.
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (b. 1993) is a conceptual photographer working on ideas related to intimacy, domestic space, and marginality. Brown Jr.’s work has been featured in exhibitions domestically and internationally. Brown Jr. was a participant in the New York Times Portfolio Review (2016) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017). He received his BFA in Photography from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.