Deana Lawson is a photo-based artist whose work examines the body’s ability to channel personal and social histories, addressing themes of familial legacy, community, desire, and religious-spiritual aesthetics. Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family album photographs. Currently on view at the Kunsthalle Basel Museum in Switzerland, Lawson’s solo exhibition, Centropy, continues to develop these themes through a meticulously installed collection of photographs, mirror prints, drugstore pictures, holograms, and 16mm film fragments.
