E Y E S O F A N O T H E R
by Antonio McAfee
Sept. 1 – Oct. 1
Antonio McAfee��Antonio McAfee (b. Stuttgart, Germany) is a photographer based in Baltimore, MD. He received his BFA in Fine Art Photography (2007) from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Shortly after, he earned his MFA in Photography (2009) from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2011, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Art in Arts and Culture Management from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). McAfee’s work addresses the complexity of representation by appropriating and manipulating photographic portraits of African Americans in the 19th century, funk and R&B musicians, and transitioned family members.
�McAfee has been featured in BmoreArt Magazine, Baltimore Magazine, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Mission on Tenth published by California Institute of Integrated Studies, and catalogues published by the University of Pennsylvania and Corcoran College of Art and Design. He participated in residencies at Vis Arts (MD), Wesley Theological Seminary (DC), Elsewhere Museum (NC), The Contemporary Museum Artist Retreat (Baltimore), Can Serrat (Spain) and Vermont Studio Center. Antonio was awarded grants from Foundation for Contemporary Art (NY), Art on the Vine (DC), Maryland State Individual Artist Awards, Civil Society Institute Fellowship, Fulbright IIE Grant to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Dedalus MFA Painting and Sculpture Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at the Walters Art Museum, Kreeger Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art (Baltimore), Academy Art Museum (MD), Hamiltonian Gallery (DC), and The Print Center (online, PA). Antonio is currently a Visiting Professor at Earlham College.
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�Appropriating photographs from W.E.B Du Bois and Thomas Calloway’s Exhibition of American Negroes (1900) and Ronald Rooks Collection (housed at University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s, Albin O. Kuhn Special Collections) into various 3D images, McAfee attempts to provide alternate ways to see historical portraits of African Americans, ways that allow the subjects to have multitudes of possibilities, real and imagined within a still image. In McAfee’s series, Eyes of Another the reimagined images provide a less static and more inexplicable depiction of the individuals, breaking down their image to reveal red and blue versions that play with the act of viewing and perception. Shifting positions while viewing the images allows the audience to view these sitters in a state that is in flux, opening up an engagement that is physical and pictorial and aims to redefine normality.
�“The brain did not evolve to see the world the way it is…the brain evolved to see the world in a way that was useful to see in the past…we inherit perception…” states Dr. Beau Lotto. As essential and urgent as it was for the Exhibition of American Negroes to redefine the depiction and understanding of middle-class blacks in Georgia to combat racist depictions and ideas, McAfee is continuing that legacy of setting new precedents of what is expected. With various options for interacting with these representations McAfee adds to the cycle of upgrading our perception of others that could start a constructive shift in biases and assumptions they would be passed on, crafting new legacies.
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Antonio McAfee
Intro Panel
Pigment Print
2017
Antonio McAfee
The Reader
Pigment Print
2017
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Antonio McAfee
Photographer’s Daughter
Pigment Print
2019
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Antonio McAfee
Photographer’s Daughter as Apparition
Pigment Print
2019
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Antonio McAfee
Young Man and Dog
Pigment Print
2019
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Antonio McAfee
Third (3)
Pigment Print
2019
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The Photographer’s Son
Pigment Print
2019
Antonio McAfee
Hiram Revels
Pigment Print
2019
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Robert Smalls
Pigment Print
2019
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The Magician
Pigment Print
2019
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Antonio McAfee
General
Pigment Print
2017
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Antonio McAfee
Third 2
Pigment Print
2017
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Young Woman (Crossed)
Pigment Print
2019
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Mamie Westmorland
Pigment Print
2017
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The Gem
Pigment Print
2019
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Woman in Black (Crossfade)
Pigment Pring
2016
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Third
Pigment Print
2017
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Woman in Glow
Pigment Print
2017
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Sonja
Pigment Print
2017
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Antonio McAfee
C’Dell
Pigment Print
2017
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E Y E S O F A N O T H E R
by Antonio McAfee
Sept. 1 – Oct. 1