Opening Reception: Saturday, September 23
Members Preview 5-6 pm
Tom Kiefer in Conversation with Liz Allen 6 – 6:30 pm
Public Reception 6-8
TOM KIEFER: EL SUEÑO AMERICANO / THE AMERICAN DREAM
SEPTEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 23, 2023
Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano / The American Dream is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the artist’s home in Ajo, Arizona, about 40 miles from the U.S./Mexico border. U.S. border agents deemed these belongings as non-essential or potentially lethal. Kiefer asks the viewer to consider these photographs as untold and unknown stories, markers of human journeys cut short, creating a personal connection for the viewer that extends compassion and empathy to those who make the dangerous journey across the desert to seek a better life.
