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SUMMARY:TLC Artist Conversation with Delphine Sims & Charles H. Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Griffin Museum is honored to host and lead a panel discussion\,
  with TLC curator Delphine Sims\, and artist Charles H. Lee. 
 
 Join artist Charles H. Lee and curator Delphine Sims for a
  conversation centered on Lee's photographs of Black cowboys and their
  horses in California and Louisiana -- work made over years of
  considerate\, complex\, and steadfast relationship-building with his
  subjects. Lee's practice offers a window into TLC\, an exhibition that
  takes its title from the shorthand we use for tender loving care -- an
  acronym as at home in whispered intimacy as in a beloved song refrain.
 
 Sims and Lee will discuss how TLC shapes not only who and what Lee
  photographs\, but how he sees: a visibility that insists on his
  subjects being recognized as multifaceted\, flawed\, and undefined
  individuals\, always worthy of tenderness -- even as harsher realities
  like patriarchy\, trauma\, and societal neglect remain deliberately
  held just beyond the frame. 
 
 So You Wanna Be a Bull Rider?\, © Charles LeeUntitled\, © Charles
  LeeUntitled\, © Charles LeeCreole Cowboy\, © Charles Lee
 
 The conversation will also place Lee's work in dialogue with the
  exhibition's three other contemporary photographers -- Alanna
  Airitam\, Harlan Bozeman\, and Star Montana -- each of whom embraces a
  similar TLC ethos: Montana piecing together the stories of Chicana
  matriarchs in her own family\, Bozeman returning each summer to
  Elaine\, Arkansas to photograph and spend time with local Black
  youth\, and Airitam building trust with the multiracial Chosen Few
  motorcycle clubs. Together\, their photographs reveal TLC as both a
  method and a lens -- one rooted in care\, and in dialogue with long
  histories of portraiture and family photography. 
 
 About Delphine Sims - 
 
 Delphine Sims is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography
  at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She completed her PhD in
  the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley with a focus on Blackness
  and American landscape photography. Delphine was awarded predoctoral
  fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts within
  the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  Exhibitions she curated and cocurated include\, (Re)Constructing
  History\, Around Group F.64\, About Things Loved: Blackness and
  Belonging and Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds. In addition to
  exhibition catalogs\, her writing can be found in Aperture\, Matte
  magazine\, and the Believer. In 2026\, Delphine was selected for the
  Studio Museum in Harlem's Arts Leadership Praxis. 
 
 About Charles H. Lee - 
 
 Charles Lee is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer and educator based
  in the Bay Area. Using photography\, archives\, video\, and
  installation\, the interdisciplinarity of Lee's work is a metaphor for
  what Blackness is\; a stateless existence that is always in flux and
  at odds with categorization\, challenging traditional Western
  epistemologic views.Lee holds an MFA from California College of the
  Arts and was named a 2026 SF MOMA SECA award finalist.
LOCATION:Griffin Museum of Photography\, 67 Shore Road\, Winchester\, MA 01890
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/tlc_panelsimslee/
CATEGORIES:Cultural\,Education
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