Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self
@ Smart Museum of Art
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, January 28th, from 7PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, May 19th
This exhibition brings together modern and contemporary artists who explore the visual construction of selfhood across a range of gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, and intersectional identities.
Speaking in the first person, each artist produces a self in the works, some through self-portraiture, some through abstraction, and others by reflecting critically on cultural representations of identity categories that impact them personally. The exhibition accentuates a level of self-consciousness about the relationship between identity and embodiment, encouraging viewers to consider their sense of themselves and the forces that shape it.
Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self is the first in a series of exhibitions designed by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry to expand object-centered teaching across all fields and disciplines in the University of Chicago’s celebrated College Core, which introduces students to foundational texts that raise fundamental questions about human experience. This first iteration is organized as primary source material for the Social Sciences course sequence, “Self, Culture, and Society.” Throughout the 2019 winter and spring academic quarters students will interpret the artworks in tandem with the theories and texts associated with their course. Overall, this new exhibition program showcases the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.
Artists
Arthur Amiotte, Marcel Duchamp, Melvin Edwards, Robert Gober, Ayana V. Jackson, Geng Jianyi, Win McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Kent Monkman, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi, Lorraine O’Grady, Catherine Opie, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Ma Qiusha, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Cindy Sherman, Anna Shteynshleyger, Frances Stark, Tony Tasset, Hank Willis Thomas, Gillian Wearing, Carrie Mae Weems, and H.C. Westermann.
Image: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study for Joe ( _2010980), 2017, archival Pigment Print. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2018.59. Courtesy of DOCUMENT
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Tags: Adrian Piper, Ana Mendieta, Anna Shteynshleyger, Arthur Amiotte, Ayana V. Jackson, Carrie Mae Weems, Catherine Opie, Chicago, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, Geng Jianyi, Gillian Wearing, H.C. Westermann, Hank Willis Thomas, Howardena Pindell, Hyde Park, Kent Monkman, Lorraine O'Grady, Ma Qiusha, Marcel Duchamp, Melvin Edwards, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Robert Gober, Smart Museum of Art, Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self, Tony Tasset, UChicago, Win McCarthy, Yasumasa Morimura, Zanele Muholi
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