Work by Pinky/MM Bass + Friends

Pinky/MM Bass (she/her) is known for powerful work that experiments with alternative photographic processes, mixed media and performance to visually address lifecycles, death, transformation and memory. Grounded by autobiography, and her singular point of view, Bass integrates outside stories, influences, and voices to create bodies of work that evolve out of the unknown and unknowable. Her work lives in the dialogue between art, science, and subjectivity. 

Alabama Contemporary is pleased to present Threads of (dis)Integration, an anti-retrospective, guided by a pillar of the Southern art scene. Building on a long history of collaboration, Bass is creating work that both enlists and pays homage to the folx that have impacted her work and life over her long career. This is an exhibition made entirely of new and ongoing collaborative work to create a future-legacy that surveys  and celebrates the most meaningful artistic voices to touch Pinky’s life. Large scale site-specific installations will pull from the artist’s long working history of integrating other voices into her work, and encouraging interventions on her own. Bass has asked 4 artists to perform/install/create with her, Douglas Baulos (AL), Renée Dossett (LA), Carolyn DeMeritt (NC) and Rivers Tilley (AL); in addition to a long distance/ Intervention Project that uses the mail to collaborate with another 20+ photographers, writers, family and friends. Rather than a ‘greatest hits’ exhibition, this call and response approach to exhibition-making aims to untangle and re-weave the threads of Bass’s own practice, presenting Pinky/MM Bass in dialogue within a much larger spectrum of experience.

Exhibition Preview + Artist Dinner
May 9 @ 6 PM

OPENING DURING MAY ARTWALK

May 10 @ 6 PM

Generous funding for this exhibition and related programming is provided by: