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Saturday April 30, 2022
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BODY POLITIC

AUTHORS: Payton Bates, Kim Chung, Diana Cook, Reshma Gurung, Jennifer Hernandez, Jack Kincaid, Kiersten Lancaster, Jesus Mendoza, Hashem Mourawed, Colette Raptosh, Samantha Soper, and Christopher Truksa
FACULTY: Stephen Fisher
DEPARTMENT: Art

ABSTRACT

Body Politic is a canon of student creativity under individually selected themes, which engage intimately with concepts such as tension, growth, diasporic experience, relationship with substances, and climate change. We have spent the past year collectively organizing and preparing for the exhibition opening together and believe firmly that the showing of this work is pertinent to the public sphere. Our work should be shared because we engage with depositions proximal to everyday life, such as drug use, behaviors, climate crisis, and the memories one can hold about home, family, and youth. Body Politic represents the nature of collaboration between us, which occurred throughout the yearlong process of developing an exhibition show. Weekly critiques exposed our motivations and intentions behind every work, creating a positive, dialectic space where our peers directly influenced each piece. Even though we developed compositions with independent narratives, we produced a unified collection of artworks. We worked collaboratively with each other, visiting and discussing the work intimately so that we may deliver a provocative exhibition. Consequently, we felt that the title Body Politic truly captured the spirit of our collective learning and growing together. Body Politic features 12 artists who have developed paintings, sculptural work, installation pieces, ceramics, drawings, and digital works. Each artist offers an insightful and unique approach to both the mediums of their choice and their personal narrative. The compositions throughout Body Politic encourage dialogue. One series, from Jennifer Hernandez, is concerned with the psychological associations we hold with colors and the perceived physicalities of human bodies. Another series, by Diana Cook, focuses on intimate moments and relatability between the viewer and the piece(s) in a lighthearted and innovative way. We want to briefly show the work included in the exhibition and several statements from artists in the show during the live-panel discussion. Then, we will talk about the work, exhibition, and process more specifically and respond to both pre-written and audience questions.

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