Carrie Mae Weems:
Varying Shades
of Brown

DESIGN DIRECTION AND CONCEPT — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — BROWN ARTS INSTITUTE, BROWN UNIVERSITY
ARTIST —CARRIE MAE WEEMS
ASSOCIATE CURATOR & PUBLICATION COORDINATOR — THEA QUIRAY TAGLE
CHIEF CURATOR & WRITER — KATE KRACZON
THE LINDEMANN PHOTOS — IWAN BAAN
INSTALLATION PHOTOS — JULIA FEATHERINGILL

Published to accompany Weems’ campus-wide exhibition and to celebrate the opening of The Lindemann, REX Architects’ newly designed performing arts center for Brown University.

The design evokes Brown University’s pioneering performing arts center  The Lindemann featuring a main hall with five ingenious and changeable floor configurations. 

Our design breaks the conventions of a book having a static sequence.

Like The Lindemann’s main hall, Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown features five different interior sequences through which the influential American conceptual artist’s works can be experienced by the reader. 

The cover recalls the scalloped pattern of The Lindemann’s fluted aluminium panels of its exterior façade onto which Weems’ Remember to Dream artwork was projected.