Eye to Eye

The WaterFire Arts Center
Providence, Rhode Island
2021

“Eye to Eye” brings together three of Meehan’s major bodies of work from the past decade, inviting viewers to consider the complexities of American life across three distinct regions: New England, the Deep South, and Silicon Valley. The exhibition combines new prints and video with original banners from her installations in Providence, Rhode Island; Brockton, Massachusetts, and Newnan, Georgia.

Meehan’s photographs are the result of her radical purpose, a sincere and thoughtful engagement with the people around her, and the revelations that come from such a committed outlook. Her concern over the past two decades has been to examine her own preconceptions and to urge us into a new regard for one another – across differences of race, class, culture, or religion. Reflected in this process we are able to see ourselves more clearly. . . . Her stunning portraits allow each of us to behold one another – in the formal sense of the word ‘behold,’ to see a person anew, with a kind, active and attentive regard – with the intention of achieving understanding and sharing respect. In essence, coming Eye to Eye with one another.

Barnaby Evans, Curator

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