Photographer Dan Budnik (American, 1933–­2020) was known for his documentary photography, especially of changes taking root in America in the 1960s civil rights movement. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Charles Alston (American, 1907–1977), the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. In 1955, Budnik’s interest in artists led him to begin photographing Pop artists and Abstract Expressionists in their studios and in less formal circumstances. In this exhibition each of the thirteen photographs from Budnik’s Picturing Artists series featured an artist represented in Kemper Museum’s Permanent Collection.

Curated by Jade Powers