But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Study for Theodore with Three Figures (0707), 2015. Pigment print on dibond with wood bracing and blocks. All images courtesy of the artist.
Mirror Study, December 10, 2014. Pigment print.
Marques, April 11, 2013. Pigment print.
Erik, Wall, Chicago, April 2, 2014. Pigment print.
Erik, Desktop, Chicago, April 2, 2014. Pigment print.
Study for Damir with Four Figures, March 8, 2015. Pigment print.
Robert, Chicago, March 13, 2014. Pigment print.
The Boys, Brooklyn, 2014 - 15, 2015. Pigment print.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Micah, Chicago, March 27, 2014. Pigment print.
Study for Benjamin with Five Figures, 2014 - 2015 (0607), 2015. Pigment print on dibond with wood bracing and blocks.
Studio, Chicago, March 12, 2014. Pigment print.
Study for Roses at Night (1104), 2015. Pigment print
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, solo exhibition opening at Document, Chicago, on October 24, 2015, with an artist talk November 7.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya (1982, San Bernardino, CA) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is an MFA Candidate in photography at UCLA. He resided in New York from 2000-2014, where he participated in Artist-in-Residence programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. He has exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada; and Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY. Sepuya’s work is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and his print zine series SHOOT (2005-2008) is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum Library, The Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur.
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