Exhibit: "My White Friends," photographs by Myra Greene

Photographer Myra Greene has often used the human body--primarily black and brown ones, often her own--to explore issues of difference, beauty, and memory. In conversations with white friends, she realized that they had very different notions of racial identity than her own; in one pivotal exchange, a friend remarked that he really didn't think about whiteness at all. "I had never considered this was possible," says Greene. "My White Friends" was born out of this revelation. The project's "racial identity portraits" are co-constructions with Greene's friends that allow them to "respond to the idea of being imaged for their race," she says. Her goal is thoughtful dialogue about how we describe and think about racial identity: "I want conversations, not categories." Greene will give an artist's talk and sign copies of her book of the same name on April 9, 6-9 p.m.