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Patric McCoy @ Wrightwood 659

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Patric McCoy: Take My Picture
April 14th – July 15th

Reception with the Artist: May 4th | 5:30 – 8:30 PM

“Over a crucial ten-year period, McCoy shot thousands of images—always at the subjects’ request—which form a rich document of 1980s Black gay Chicago. Take My Picture features a selection of some 50 black-and-white and color photographs from this decade, by the end of which thousands would die of HIV/AIDS, including many of McCoy’s friends, lovers, and subjects. McCoy’s subjects are neither posed nor directed; each has agency over how he is seen, elevating his humanity, inverting and subverting the viewer’s gaze. Take My Picture can be seen as a poignant marker of place, time, and memory; an altar to those lost.”

Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood
Chicago, IL
https://wrightwood659.org/exhibitions/patric-mccoy-take-my-picture/


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