"Lewis Watts: Photographs"
2000-09-10 until 2000-12-31
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase, NY, USA

West Coast photographer Lewis Watts trains his camera on urban life, especially that experienced by African-Americans. Most of his photographs have been taken in the south or in East Oakland, California. They not only record what the artist has observed but also are expressive of some of the faces and places of Black America.

His imagery is made succinct by a careful attention to formal composition that combines found reality with esthetical elements. Since 1978, he has been a Lecturer in Photography and Visual Studies in the College of Environmental design at University of California, Berkeley. Curated by Judy Collischan, Ph.D., Neuberger Museum of Art Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs. Funded, in part, by the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art and the Westchester Arts Council.

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