If All Else Fails   Carrie Mae Weems, screenprint 2000

Carrie Mae Weems Born in Portland, Oregon, 1953, Weems holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, as well as a Master's in Fine Arts and a Master's Degree in Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. She has re-ceived several awards including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, the Herb Albert Award and a Visual Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Since the 1980s, she has been in over 200 group exhibitions, including the 1991 Whitney Biennial, New York City, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C in the United States, and in Japan, Germany, Canada, Korea, Italy, Finland, South Africa. She has had over 60 solo exhibi-tions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, >>>