the kids are all right

Featuring photography and video created in the last 10 years by 38 established and emerging artists, the kids are all right explores with sensitive yet radical openness the notion of family in the 21st century. The photographers in the kids are all right actively collaborate with their subjects when making their work, most often by involving them in the creation of each of the photographed scenarios. Gaining their subjects' trust, they simultaneously and self-consciously reveal the subjectivity of the process, often including themselves in the pictures or adding narratives in the form of writing or video.

The platform of open-mindedness, combined with vibrant collaboration, results in intimate and illuminating portraits of families that reject irony and judgment in favor of affirmation and acceptance. The family units depicted in this exhibition are accepted as is, in whatever form they come--natural or found. The artists take no critical position, rather they affirm with poignacy and humor the ever-shifting notion of the contemporary family.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color exhibition catalogue featuring images from each artist and an essay by exhibition curator Alison Ferris.

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Time:

Tue-Sat, 10-5; Sun 1-5 Sat, Sep 14, 2013 - Sun, Jan 5, 2014

Venue:

Addison Gallery of American Art

Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810

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