Aliza Nisenbaum's majestic portraits of communities
HYPERALLERGIC
By Sheila Regan
MINNEAPOLIS — The subjects in Aliza Nisenbaum’s group portraits, now on view in A Place We Share at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), look almost regal in their presentation. The groups are carefully composed, as if they were posing for a formal photography shoot, though in reality Nisenbaum had each person sit with her individually. While these people don’t wield a huge amount of social or political power, Nisenbaum portrays them with majesty and importance, and in so doing upends class and status structures. Nisenbaum, a Harlem-based artist who was born in Mexico City and raised by Russian-Jewish and Scandinavian-American parents. Aliza Nisenbaum: A Place We Share continues at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2400 3rd Ave S., Minneapolis) through February 4. [More]
By Sheila Regan
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| Aliza Nisenbaum, “Nimo, Sumiya, and Bisharo harvesting flowers and vegetables at Hope Community Garden” (2017) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) |
