Events
GV Arts: As Is: Beauty and the Body in Contemporary Art
Date and Time
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Location
GVSU Art Gallery, Haas Center for the Arts
Description
Haas Center for the Arts, University Art Gallery
August 26 – November 4, 2022
Opening Reception for the GVSU Arts Celebration 2022-2023 season, Thursday, September 22, 2022, 5-8 p.m.
GVSU Art Gallery, Haas Center for the Arts
Our bodies are both personal objects and shared spaces. They allow us to physically experience the world and are also complex entities where concepts of beauty, self, gender, and identity intersect. Although there is a long history of artists engaging the human form, increasingly, contemporary artists have embraced the complexity and imperfection of the body as it is.
This exhibition, selected from a private collection in Chicago, brings together 19 artists from the last 25 years who actively engage the body and its changing role through their work. Drawing on historical and progressive approaches to figuration, they celebrate the body as a source of inspiration and challenge traditional notions of beauty and representation.
The images and renderings of bodies in this exhibition are not neutral. They reveal each artist’s motifs, beliefs, and passions and raise questions about how we represent ourselves publicly and privately in a world still saturated with idealized images of the body. More importantly, they provide meaning and help us see ourselves and how we see others within a culture that is increasingly conscious of age, race, gender, and status.
This event has been tagged as alumni, arts, and food.
Information
For more information, please visit: https:///www.gvsu.edu/gvarts/module-events-view.htm?siteModuleId=43C72CDC-A34D-7FBD-6EC077AB42F7CD00&eventId=D011DA09-9589-EB58-C77BF83612F92AAA
Contact
Amanda Rainey, University Art Gallery
Recurring
This event also occurs on 8/26/22