Busboys and Poets Books Presents LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME
Date and Time
Oct 25, 2022 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Oct 25, 2022 6:00 pm
450K
Busboys and Poets Books Presents LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME
Join us as we bring our attention to the powerful and complex forms of intimacy.
Author Jess T. Dugan reflects on desire, intimacy, companionship, and the ways our identities are shaped by these experiences. This highly personal collection of work includes self-portraits, portraits of individuals and couples, and still lifes. As well they are interwoven with diaristic writings reflecting on relationships, solitude, family, loss, healing, and the many transformations we encounter which define one's life. Dugan is no stranger to allowing the medium of photography to help understand their own identity, as well as connect with others on a deeper level. Their process of working slowly and collaboratively discloses moments of heightened psychological intensity in images that transcend the specifics of a particular person or place, engaging with what it means to know oneself alongside and through others. Brought together these photographs function as an extended, oblique self-portrait as much as a catalogue of friends and loved ones.
Jess is joining the Busboys stage to discuss their new book. They will be joined in conversation by Dorothy Moss. This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME will be available for purchase before and during the event. Please note that this event will not be livestreamed.
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Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity through photography, video, and writing. Their work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of over 40 museums throughout the United States. Their monographs include Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022), To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) and Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015). They are the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an ICP Infinity Award, and were selected by theObama White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change.
Dorothy Moss is curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery. Her current exhibitions include One Life: Maya Lin (opening September 30, 2022); and Kinship (opening October 28, 2022), which she is co-curating with Leslie Ureña, Taína Caragol, and Robyn Asleson. Her past exhibitions include Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands with a catalogue published by Yale University Press; Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers, co-curated with David C. Ward (2017) with a catalogue published by Smithsonian Press; and One Life: Sylvia Plath (2017). Moss served as the director of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and curator of the resulting exhibitions from 2013-2019. In 2015, Moss initiated the Portrait Gallery’s first performance art series IDENTIFY, an ongoing series which has included twelve commissioned performances by internationally-recognized artists. She is also an author of The Obama Portraits (2020), published by Princeton University Press.
