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CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
High Yella Girl.

Toned silver print, with Prestype and frame, 1989. 779x781 mm; 30 ⅝x30¾ inches, including the frame. Edition of 3. From the Colored People series.

Provenance: the artist, New York; P.P.O.W., New York; private collection, New York.

High Yella Girl is a significant and very scarce work from the artist's important 1988-89 series. Weems focuses on the African American cultural phenomenon of colorism. This idea is furthered with Weems' use of an unnaturally bright yellow tone - it highlights how our perceptions of color and race are conditioned by artificial standards. The artist printed another edition of 5 in 1997.


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