RUTH LEVISON HALPERIN GALLERY
One of three inaugural exhibitions of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI), At Home/On Stage: Asian American Representation in Photography and Film, curated by Maggie Dethloff, assistant curator of photography and new media, explores how Asian American artists’ work participates in conversations around identity and representation. Featuring photographs, film, and video spanning the 20th century, the exhibition focuses on work made since the 1970s, the time period after the term “Asian American” was coined in 1968. Arising as part of constituent communities’ efforts towards self-definition, autonomy, coalition-building, and education concerning their long histories in the United States, the term speaks directly to the concepts of identity and representation in both political and socio-cultural terms.
