SCOTTSDALE, AZ.-The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art presents Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up, on view through May 27, 2008. This first museum survey of Lyle Ashton Harris’s art spans nearly twenty years of work, from the early, formal studio self-portraits for which he first gained acclaim to the large-scale constructions featured in the 2007 Venice Biennale. Harris approaches photography as a social performance. He "blows up" preconceptions of portraiture, mass-media imagery and street photography and zeroes in on the viewers’ role as a reader of images—images that are also evidence of one’s sense of self, gender and race. This exhibition is structured as a vast collage of imagery that weaves back and forth over time and reveals the artist’s dynamic, recombinant creative process.

Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Sponsored by Yvette Craddock; Janis Leonard; Linda and Sherman Saperstein and Mikki and Stanley Weithorn.