General Assembly Exhibition Catalogue
Photographs by Matthew Connors
Text by Mary Lee Hodgens
Light Work, Syracuse, NY, 2020
Softcover, 48 pages, 9 x 10 in.
Edition of 2700
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Light Work presents New York based artist Matthew Connors’s General Assembly. This exhibition comprises 650 portraits that span the first year of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in New York City. An expansive project that pairs individual black and white portraits within a tightly formatted grid, General Assembly borrows its title from the movement’s horizontal decision-making process. Connors made these black-and-white portraits in the charged atmosphere of Zuccotti Park, elsewhere in New York City at direct actions, and during more contemplative moments before and after working group meetings.