Converging Territories
Lalla Essaydireceived a B.F.A. from Tufts University in 1999 and an M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 2003. Essaydi’s current work consists of analog photography, but she has also worked in oil on canvas, mixed media, and video. She has exhibited at the Schneider Gallery, Chicago; the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; the Fries Museum, the Netherlands; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.Converging Territoriesis to accompany a solo exhibition at the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York in January 2005. Essaydi was born in Morocco and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.Amanda Carlsonis currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hartford. She held the Stuart S. Golding Endowed Chair in African Art at the University of South Florida from 1992 to 2000. Carlson, a former Fulbright Scholar, has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her forthcoming works include the booksAfrica in Florida, The Field’s Edge: Agency, Body, Lensand the documentary filmCross the Water. Carlson lives in West Hartford, Connecticut.