GROUP EXHIBITION

While both academic and scientific representations of the human body privilege anatomical exactness—with strict attention paid to what can be codified and standardized—artists throughout history have just as often taken the body to be a gateway to so many fantastic and surreal forms. The artists in S-Curve interpret the figure at rest through its historically familiar expressions, such as the reclining nude, to more contemporary and challenging forms that see it as being between motion and stasis, between gender and subjectivity. Rather than situate the body as a form fixed and unchanged across time, the exhibition instead uses a wide historical lens to show how the human figure has, for centuries, been a constant source of surprise and invention.

Featured artists include Frank Benson (b. 1976), Louise Bonnet (b. 1970), Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960), Amie Dicke (b. 1978), Awol Erizku (b. 1988), Samuel Fosso (b. 1962), Sadao Hasegawa (1945-1999), André Kertész (1894-1985), Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989), Simone Leigh (b.1967), Henry Moore (1898-1986), Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (b. 1996), Chris Ofili (b. 1968), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754), Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010) and Francesca Woodman (1958-1981).

The exhibition will be accompanied by three life drawing sessions, presented over the course of the exhibition, on the following dates: Thursday, February 19, 6:30-8 PM; Thursday, March 12, 6:30-8 PM; and Thursday, April 23, 6:30-8 PM. Materials will be provided.