Three different photo series by women who aim to question racial stereotypes—both historical and current—have culminated into a new exhibition at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.

How do you see me? presents work from Endia Beal, who has contributed images from Am I What You’re Looking For?, her series that prods the perception of black women in the corporate workplace by taking their formal portraits in front of an office backdrop. There’s also Alanna Airitam’s series, The Golden Age, which comments on the exclusion or segregation of black people in art with images that recall the classic Dutch style of portraiture. And finally, Medina Dugger pays photographic tribute in her series Chroma: An Ode to J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, a Nigerian artist whose prolific career was marked by his black-and-white photos of African women’s hairstyles. In Dugger’s reinterpretation, she captures the historically symbolic hairdos in full, bold color. Collectively, these series serve to provoke biases with deceptively simple approaches to portraiture.

Catherine Edelman will lead a talk with Airitam on October 18, alongside three figures in the Chicago art scene: Museum of Contemporary Photography Curator Sheridan Tucker Anderson, Threewalls Executive Director Jeffreen Hayes and Kate Lorenz, the executive director at Hyde Park Art Center. How do you see me? will be on view at the gallery through October 27.

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