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CLAMP Art presents Look at me like you love me
cameron peters for visura blog
Jan 2, 2023
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CLAMP Art presents “Look at me like you love me” by Jess Dugan from November 3, 2022, to January 7, 2023.
Look at me like you love me
November 3, 2022—January 7, 2023
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – In the exhibition, Look at me like you love me, on view at CLAMP until January 7th, 2023, American photographer Jess T. Dugan (b.1986) uses portraiture and still life to explore the question, “How do we come to know ourselves – our intimate identity – and our connection with others?” Emerging from their experiences as a queer, non-binary person, Dugan’s portraiture examines themes of desire, relationships, and the lived experience. As both a photographer and a protagonist in their work, Dugan sees this project as an extended self-portrait. Dugan reflects in the gallery’s press release, “I continually explore what it means to live authentically and how visual representation—particularly photographic portraiture—plays a powerful role in that process.”
Published as a book by MACK in 2022, Look at me like you love me emerged from a selection of new work from Dugan’s long-term project, Every breath we draw, which documents the queer experience, identity, and community through portraiture. Through the exhibition's fifteen images of individuals, couples, self-portraits, and still-life moments, Dugan creates a space for the viewer to pause, feel, and reflect. In CLAMP’s press release, Dugan shares, “My intention is to create work that facilitates intimacy and encourages empathy, understanding, and critical conversations about identity and contemporary social life.”
Dugan’s monographs include Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022), To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults (KehrerVerlag, 2018), and Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015).
To learn more about the exhibition, visit https://clampart.com/. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
About CLAMP
Established in 2000, CLAMP is located in the Flower District in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. CLAMP represents a wide range of emerging and mid-career artists of all media with a specialization in photography. In addition, the gallery carries a large selection of modern and contemporary paintings, prints, and photographs from the early 20th century to the present. Owner, Brian Paul Clamp, has over twenty-five years of experience in the field. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Critical Studies in Modern Art from Columbia University, and is the author of over forty articles and publications on American art to date.
Look at me like you love meCLAMP gallery presents “Look at me like you love me,” an exhibition of photographs from Jess T. Dugan’s 2022 monograph by MACK.
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