Work
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 8 | 2023 |Archival pigment print 28.75 x 36 inches unframed; 30.75 x 37 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5 (4 available)
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 3 | 2023 |Archival pigment print | 28.75 x 36 inches unframed; 30.75 x 37 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3 (2 avaiable)
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 1| 2023 |Archival pigment print | 36 x 24 inches unframed; 37 x 25 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 2| 2023 |Archival pigment print | 36 x 24 inches unframed; 37 x 25 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 7| 2023 |Archival pigment print | 36 x 24 inches unframed; 37 x 25 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 6| 2023 |Archival pigment print | 36 x 24 inches unframed; 37 x 25 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5 (4 available)
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 5| 2023 |Archival pigment print | 36 x 24 inches unframed; 37 x 25 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
REYAH | Becoming Reyah 4| 2023 |Archival pigment print | 36 x 24 inches unframed; 37 x 25 inches framed
36 x 24: Edition of 5 (3 available)
60 x 40 inches: Edition of 3
2 AP’s for each edition
Press Release
Reyah: Becoming Reyah
Exhibition Dates: February 24 – March 30, 2024
Reception: Saturday, February 24th from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! IN CONVERSATION:
🗓️ Saturday, March 9th, at 1:00 pm: The gallery is honored to host poet and author Phillip B. Williams, who will read selections from his books, as well as interview Reyah, whose introspective self portraits intersect with Williams area of scholarship.
Phillip B. Williams is the author of two collections of poetry: Thief in the Interior, which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Mutiny, which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and the winner of a 2022 American Book Award. Williams is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. Williams is currently on tour with his new novel, OURS, published by Penguin/Viking in 2024.
“In Ours, Phillip B. Williams creates a fictional town with a complicated, magical history that is as thrilling to explore as the Macondo of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. The mysteries at the heart of this novel are deeply considered, as is the concept of freedom itself. With a poet’s precision of language and a seasoned storyteller’s attention to character, Williams has written a truly one-of-a-kind epic.” —Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House
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PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY was honored to successfully debut a stunning series of archival pigment prints from Reyah, a self-taught artist, at Untitled Art 2023. The gallery now greatly anticipates Reyah’s first one-person exhibition opening Saturday, February 24th–a not to miss event!
Reyah’s body of work in self-portraiture represents a multi-year timeline of building knowledge and experience with their medium-format camera. Their nude self-portraits are classic compositions, until the viewer registers yards of manipulated rope coursing round their body. Dre Hudson is an artist, who gave agency to his nonbinary alter ego Reyah, releasing Hudson from binary gender assumptions in the studio. Reyah composes, costumes, and photographs themself using rope as regal motifs of pageantry. Reframing rope from its legacy of violence and restraint liberates the artist from it’s historical weight. Alone in their studio, Reyah takes agency with all aspects of their process, constructing the rope costumes, lighting their body, and finally exposing the shot. Reyah advances a seductive coming of age story, Becoming Reyah.