Ralph Lemon, “1856 Cessna Road”

Installation

Studio Museum in Harlem

Until Sun May 27 2012

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Time Out says

Thu Mar 15 2012

The color photos and film installation that make up this show document a remarkable eight-year collaboration between Lemon, a renowned contemporary choreographer, and Walter Carter, a former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener from Little Yazoo, MS, who died in 2010 at age 102. Twice a year, Lemon would travel to Little Yazoo and do different projects with Carter, including a filmed reenactment of director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi classic, Solaris. In both the photos and the film, Lemon captures Carter in a silver astronaut outfit, walking down dirt roads or “flying” a spaceship—actually a around cage on wheels topped by a large satellite TV dish. What becomes apparent is their relationship as kindred spirits, suffused with a generosity of spirit and touched with more than a little humor.

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Name:
Studio Museum in Harlem
Address:
Studio Museum in Harlem 144 W 125th St
Harlem
New York
10027

Cross Street:
between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd (Seventh Ave) and Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Ave)
Phone:
212-864-4500
Website:
studiomuseum.org
Opening hours:
Thu, Fri noon–9pm; Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm
Transport:
Subway: 2, 3 to 125th St
Price:
Suggested donation $7, seniors and students $3, members and children under 13 free. Sun free
Map
1. Studio Museum in Harlem
  - 144 W 125th St
    Harlem
    New York
    10027
  - 212-864-4500
  - studiomuseum.org
  - 40.808241,-73.947723

Event phone:
212-864-4500
Event website:
studiomuseum.org

Categories:
Art. Photography. Film & video. Installation
Good for:
Activities for a spare hour. Culture vultures. Feed your brain. Mood. Chill
Event type:
Exhibitions

Date Time Price information
Sun Apr 29 2012

12:00pm