Curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Jessica Hough

Catherine Opie fuses the observational tradition of American photography with a European poststructuralist approach to identity politics in a practice that seeks to determine the aesthetic and cultural languages that articulate community. Co-organized by Armstrong, from OCMA, and Hough, from Connecticut’s Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, where a smaller version premiered in January, this survey comprises some 140 photographs in nine series—beginning with a selection from Opie’s graduate project, “Master Plan,” 1986–88, which chronicles the development of a housing project in Valencia, California, and ending with work from “In and Around Home,” 2004–2005, which explores her neighborhood in Los Angeles. An accompanying catalogue features a story by A. M. Homes and essays by the curators. Travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Sept. 29-Dec. 30.

— Stephen Frailey