Sarah Wilson, "Patsy," 2008
Colby Katz, "Rayne-Lin, Little Miss Firecracker, LA.," 2006
As with the previous post, here is an exhibition opening next week on the subject of those with problems seeing, this time from the point of view of a photographer witnessing prom night at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. In “Blind Prom,” Sarah Wilson evokes a sense of teenagers struggling with the same issues of identity as their sighted peers. These teenagers just seem a bit happier and a lot less world weary.
Alongside Wilson’s “Blind Prom,” Colby Katz is exhibiting “Beauty Pageants,” a look at a more desperate world where the ideal seems to be a simulation of a Barbie doll and parents are barely behind the scenes orchestrating ambitions.
One group lives within and for Image; the other, being blind, has largely avoided it.
Both Katz and Wilson are former students at New York University, where I teach. Their show opens May 28 at Foley Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea.
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