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  Constructs #10, #11, #12, #13, 1989

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  Constructs #10, 1989

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  Constructs #11, 1989

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  Constructs #12, 1989

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  Constructs #13, 1989

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  Constructs #10, #11, #12, #13, 1989; In “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1994

 

The “Constructs” series of black and white photographic prints was produced by Harris in 1989 during his first year in the MFA graduate program at the California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles. These photographs were initially presented publically in 1990 in an exhibition titled “AutoPortraits” organized by Autograph at Camerawork, London, UK, and in the 1992 exhibition “Fever” at Exit Art/The First World, New York, curated by co-founders Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman. This suite of four works was included in the groundbreaking exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” curated by Thelma Golden at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1994, which traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 1995. More recently, in 2018 Salon 94 featured Constructs at Frieze New York. In 2019 the suite of four Constructs was acquired by the Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and by the Tate Modern, London, UK.