Discover the Kitchen Table Art Series: Where Art Meets Everyday Life

A kitchen table is more than a place to eat—it’s the heart of the home where art and everyday life beautifully intersect. The kitchen table art series brings this moment to life with thoughtfully designed, handcrafted pieces that elevate dining into an immersive artistic experience.

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For this series, Carrie Mae Weems staged and photographed a fictional drama in which she plays the lead. The setting is always the same: a small room with a table and a single overhead light. Other cast members play lovers, friends, and daughters.

From this modest setup, the artist creates an entire world. The kitchen, traditionally considered a female space, has rarely been pictured as a site. Description In Untitled (Kitchen Table Series) Carrie Mae Weems staged and photographed a fictional drama, playing the lead role herself.

In the context of a simple setting that remains constant-the artist's own kitchen table-the series explores the shifting roles occupied by the strong central female character: lover, friend, and mother. The resulting body of work became " The Kitchen Table Series " (1990), both a landmark in Weems's career and in the lives of others. "I can't tell you how many people I've met in the art world-artists, curators, dealers-that point to 'The Kitchen Table Series' as the one piece that made them know they wanted to be in the arts," said Elisabeth Sann, a director at Jack.

Delve into the "Kitchen Table Series" by Carrie Mae Weems, where intimate photography celebrates family spaces and diverse voices in art. News and Events Biography Press Contact Open MenuClose Menu Photo Work Video Projects Installations Public Art Projects Publications News and Events Biography Press Contact Kitchen Table 1990. The Kitchen Table Series launched Weems into the art world as a pioneer of Black female storytelling.

She became the first Black woman to receive a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2014, and her work has since been shown at MoMA, Tate, MCA Los Angeles, and beyond. Provenance The artist; Private Collection; [Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session, November 14, 2019, Lot 896]; purchased by MFAH, 2019. Published References Weems, Carrie Mae, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Adrienne Edwards, (Art Critic), and Takaaki Matsumoto.

Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series. Her career-making project, The Kitchen Table Series, 1990, revels in its simplicity. In a stripped back scene, Weems rotates people and props, investigating self, relationships, motherhood, and the viewer.

The retrospective also includes many of Weems' early works, such as the historic Kitchen Table Series (1990) and Museums (2006-ongoing); a selection of more recent projects, such as Scenes and Takes (2016) and Painting the Town (2021); as well as significant video installations, including The Shape of Thing s (2021) and Leave Now! (2022). This publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen.

The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story.