INSTALLATION Shot OF "OUR SELVES: PHOTOGRAPHS BY WOMEN ARTISTS FROM HELEN KORNBLUM" AT MOMA, 2022. (FAR-RIGHT, Color photo: Lorie Novak, "Self portraits, 1987")
DPI Professor Lorie Novak is one of the artists in the exhibition Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum, organized by Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator, with Dana Ostrander, and Caitlin Ryan, Curatorial Assistants in the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art. On view April 16-October 2, 2022
The exhibition presents 90 photographic works by women artists from the last 100 years Our Selves opens with a wall of self-portraits and portraits by such modernist photographers as Lola Álvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Lotte Jacobi, and Lucia Moholy, alongside contemporary practitioners including Tatiana Parcero, Rosemarie Trockel, and Lorie Novak. Rather than presenting a chronological history of women photographers or a linear account of feminist photography, the exhibition prompts new appraisals and compelling dialogues from a contemporary, intersectional feminist perspective. Our Selves reexamines a host of topics, countering racial and gender invisibility, systemic racial injustice, and colonialism, through a diversity of photographic practices, including portraiture, photojournalism, social documentary, advertising, avant-garde experimentation, and conceptual photography.