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Sarah Baley Reimagines "The Model Wife" in Fundraiser at BWAC
A new perspective of a female photographer using women as subject, as male photographers have in the past.
Renown photographer Sarah Baley debuts a new project at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Her latest series is a developing commentary on The Model Wife, a book by photographer/author Arthur Ollman, published in 1999. This book, and an accompanying exhibition which followed two years later, surveyed nine male photographers including Lee Friedlander, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, working in the 20th century, who had used their wives as models.
Baley reimagines The Model Wife as it would look today, from her perspective as a Femme/LGBTQI+ artist. With this exhibition the artist has generously given us a window into her practice. Baley tells us, "This series is a work in progress. I am sharing my process on the walls of the gallery as I would in the privacy of my own studio while it is still evolving, raw and in transformation, in honor of the LGBTQIA+ Community and femme identifying people."
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The Model Wife will be on view through August 28th in the upstairs gallery at BWAC. The galleries occupy two floors of the massive Civil War-era Beard and Robinson Stores warehouse at 481 Van Brunt Street on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. There is an opening reception on Friday, July 29, 2022 from 6-8 pm. BWAC is open to the public Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 6 pm and by appointment on weekdays.