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Artist’s Talk, Wendel White: Folding Time
October 5 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us for this compelling presentation by Wendel White on
Saturday, October 5th at 3:30 pm.
A light reception will follow as part of the exhibition, Folding Time. On view from September 3 through October 26, 2024.
Wendel White is a distinguished South Jersey-based photographer known for focusing on Black history and the legacy of slavery through his foundational projects: Schools for the Colored, Red Summer, and Manifest. The exhibition Folding Time will display a selection of photographs from each series. Through these bodies of work, White is effectively folding time by bringing the past and the present into a shared space.
White’s series Manifest explores Black material culture across public collections in the original thirteen English colonies and Washington, DC, showcasing artifacts that range from receipts for human purchases to everyday items, illuminating the historical narrative of the Black community in America. Schools for the Colored documents segregation with historic African American school buildings, particularly in the northern “Up-South” states. The digital imaging technique that obscures the landscape surrounding the schools, and in some cases, the schools themselves, is a visual representation of the W.E.B. DuBois literary metaphor of the “veil” as a social barrier.
Red Summer delves into locations where racial violence erupted between 1917 and 1923, combining contemporary landscapes with fragments of historical newspaper reporting to bridge past and present perspectives.
About the Artist
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Wendel White holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University and has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; an honorary Doctor of Arts at Oakland University; a Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; and multiple artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. His work has been exhibited widely and is housed in prestigious collections and institutions worldwide.
image above: Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, New Jersey. Pigment Inkjet on Paper