Arlington, TX – The Arlington Museum of Art is proud to announce its next exhibition, Vivian Maier: The Color Work. This will be the AMA’s second exhibition featuring Maier’s famed photography. The AMA will also feature an exhibition of works from the Texas Photographic Society in its Rooftop Gallery. The exhibition will take place from November 27, 2020 – February 21, 2021.
Vivian Maier (1926-2009) is an artist veiled by mystery. She spent forty years working as a nanny in Chicago, all the while she shot over 100,000 captivating images. Her works were not discovered by the public until after her death when historian John Maloof purchased two abandoned storage lockers at a warehouse auction and found himself in possession of thousands of negatives, slides and prints. Maier’s work has since been exhibited in galleries and museums and featured in magazines and newspapers all over the world.
Dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, Vivian Maier: The Color Work captures the street life of Chicago and New York, and includes a number of the artist’s enigmatic self-portraits. Maier’s color work was made during the last 30 years of her life when she began to work with a 35-millimeter camera during which time she produced roughly 40,000 Ektachrome color slides. This exhibition is the largest and most highly curated collection of Maier’s full-color photographs to date.
In conjunction with AMA’s upcoming exhibition Vivian Maier: The Color Work, Texas Photographic Society will exhibit Street Encounters, a 50-image juried exhibition of international street photography. The exhibit will be on view in our Rooftop Gallery. This will be the first partnership between AMA and TPS. If you are interested in submitting work to the TPS call for entry, please go to https://texasphoto.org/street-encounters.
The Texas Photographic Society is a photo-arts non profit in its 36th year supporting photographers and the world of image-making. “We are thrilled to partner with AMA during Vivian Maier: The Color Work. Vivian Maier’s work is fascinating and iconic. Our exhibition seeks to honor her contributions and celebrate the unguarded moments of humanity caught through the street photography lens,” said Susan Edgley, Executive Director, Texas Photographic Society.
Contributing photographers to Street Encounters
Elizabeth Bennett | Keith Blandford | Fikry Botros | Amy Broderick | Adele Brown | William Bullard | Jill Skupin Burkholder | Dan Burkholder | Loda Choo | Mark Coggins | Deborah Cole | Gregory D’Agostino | Joe Pat Davis | Karen Healy | Cindy Higby | Scott Hug | Stephen Jess | Bette Kauffman | Pedro Ledesma III | Anna Litvak-Hinenzon | Jim Lustenader | Marcia Mahoney | Alina Marin-Bliach | Christina McFaul | Ian McVea | Alan Mevis | Robert Moore | Michael Mulvey | Robert Neff | Laura Noel | William Olsson | J Michael Pearce | Jelisa Peterson | Jerry Rawlings | Leslie Rosenthal | Matt Sims | Denis Sivack | Eric Smith | Sharon Socol | Eduardo Soler | Priscilla Spencer | Wayne Swanson | Timothy Tracz | John R Van Beekum | Alice Christine Walker | Ned Walthall | Nina Weinberg Doran | Sandra Chen Weinstein | Debra Wells | Bill Wright
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