{"id":59472,"date":"2018-01-10T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?p=59472"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:50:39","slug":"buag-announces-spring-2018-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2018\/buag-announces-spring-2018-exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"BUAG Announces Spring 2018 Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"BEVERLYSEMMES_Olga\"<\/a>Boston University Art Galleries (BUAG)<\/a>, the consortium comprised of the Stone Gallery, Annex, <\/strong>and 808 Gallery,<\/strong> is pleased to announce upcoming exhibitions and programming.<\/p>\n

Serving the Boston University community, as well as the greater Boston and New England public, BUAG is committed to a culturally inclusive and interdisciplinary interpretation of art and culture. Located on the Boston University campus, the Art Galleries maintain an ongoing schedule of temporary exhibitions in four locations that focus on contemporary international, national, and regional art developments.<\/p>\n

Exhibition and Gallery Events are free and open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cover Image:\u00a0Beverly Semmes, Olga, 2008, Ceramic, Rayon velvet, silk velvet, and taffeta, 84 x 82 x 84 inches.\u00a0 Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the spring of 2018, Boston University Art Galleries presents the following exhibitions:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Forms & Alterations<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 2 – March 25, 2018 |\u00a0808 Gallery<\/p>\n

Film Screening – Outfitumentary, a film by K8 Hardy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 7, 7:00 pm |\u00a0Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n

Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 2 – March 25, 2018 | Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery<\/p>\n

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Forms & Alterations<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

February 2 – March 25, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

Opening Reception<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong> Friday, February 2, 6:00-8:00pm with Fashion Show and Performance by Qwear<\/p>\n

Location<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong> 808 Gallery (808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston)<\/p>\n

\"KatherineHubbardHigRes\"Forms & Alterations<\/em>\u00a0considers\u00a0how concepts of gender and identity are expressed, constructed, and\u00a0questioned\u00a0through the intersections of performance and strategies of dress, clothing,\u00a0and textiles. The exhibition\u00a0highlights\u00a0contemporary practitioners\u00a0working\u00a0between the disciplines of fine art and experimental fashion\u00a0who employ\u00a0the material and visual language of clothing\u00a0in order\u00a0to\u00a0subvert and perform the relationship between clothing, gender, and the body.\u00a0Through\u00a0the appropriation of\u00a0DIY aesthetics,\u00a0the\u00a0innovative\u00a0use of material and form, and\u00a0a performative approach\u00a0to personal style, the participating artists challenge\u00a0fashion\u2019s\u00a0commodification of the body and mainstream conventions of\u00a0dress. With\u00a0particular attention to the\u00a0artistic practices\u00a0of women and LGBTQI artists,\u00a0Forms & Alterations<\/em>\u00a0addresses\u00a0the body as a creative and\u00a0contested site in which gender norms are\u00a0redefined and negotiated\u00a0through\u00a0clothing\u00a0and self-styling.<\/p>\n

In an opening night fashion performance, the acclaimed queer fashion platform, Qwear,<\/strong> will be joined by several QTPOC performers of diverse cultures, origins, genders, and sexual orientations in the premiere of Qwear’s first apparel collection. Qwear’s unique approach to fashion design, where the models are the designers, gives the audience a chance to be guided by a queer expression that is immersed in the history of the House Ballroom Scene while also confronting the gendered space of the 808 Gallery’s original use as a 1930s Cadillac Showroom.<\/p>\n

Participating artists are Lisa Anne\u00a0Auerbach, A.K. Burns, CarWash Collective (Beverly Semmes\u00a0and Jennifer\u00a0Minniti), Susan Cianciolo, Claire Fleury and Alesia\u00a0Exum, Genevieve\u00a0Gaignard, K8 Hardy, Katherine Hubbard\u00a0and MPA, Susan\u00a0Metrican, Beverly Semmes, Stacy A.\u00a0Scibelli,\u00a0Qwear, Sarah Zapata, and Andrea Zittel.<\/p>\n

Image caption:\u00a0Katherine Hubbard + MPA, Untitled, 2010, Unique photo print, 4\u00d76 inches. Courtesy the artists and Higher Pictures, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Film Screening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outfitumentary<\/em>, a film by K8 Hardy followed by a Q&A with the artist<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 7, 7:00pm<\/em><\/p>\n

Location<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong> Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA)<\/p>\n

Tickets:<\/u><\/strong> Please see bu.edu\/art<\/a>\u00a0for ticket information.<\/p>\n

K8 Hardy\u2019s structuralist and experimental film\u00a0Outfitumentary<\/em>\u00a0is both performance and video record of the artist\u2019s changing sense of self and style over an eleven-year period. In 2001, before the ubiquity of Instagram and selfies, K8 Hardy set out to document her daily outfits on a fairly consistent, if not daily basis. Hardy used the same mini-DV camera and filmed in ever-changing living spaces and art studios in New York. The resulting 80-minute film is an affecting and personal exploration of queer identity and the way in which the materiality of the body and its subsequent \u201coutfitting\u201d \u2013 in private and public life \u2013 serves to refine, define, and probe the body politic.<\/p>\n

The screening will be introduced by the artist and followed by a Q&A.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Outfitumentary film still, Directed, produced, photographed and edited by K8 Hardy. Co-Produced by Madeleine Molyneaux.\u00a0A Hardy Studio Production in association with Picture Palace Pictures.\u00a0All film stills courtesy the artist; Hardy Studio: Picture Palace Pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

February 2 – March 25, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

Opening Reception<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong> Wednesday, March 14, 7:00pm<\/p>\n

Location<\/u><\/strong>:<\/strong> Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery<\/p>\n

\"211001,This exhibition presents photographer Lee Friedlander\u2019s images of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a critical yet generally neglected moment in American civil rights history. On May 17, 1957\u2014the third anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision\u00a0Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka<\/em>, which outlawed segregation in public schools\u2014thousands of activists, including many leaders from religious, social, educational, labor, and political spheres, united in front of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington,\u00a0D.C.\u00a0At this first large-scale gathering of African Americans on the National Mall, an event that was a forerunner of the 1963 March on Washington at which Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famed \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, protestors called on federal authorities to enforce desegregation, support voting rights, and combat racial violence. Friedlander photographed many of the illustrious figures who attended or spoke at the march, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, Mahalia Jackson, and Harry Belafonte, and he wove among the demonstrators on the ground to capture the energy and expressions of the day.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the exhibition, the work of three contemporary artists\u2014Sheila Pree Bright, Whitney Curtis, and Nancy Musinguzi\u2014will be shown in the Stone Gallery and Annex. Centering around present-day social justice movements, the photography of Bright, Curtis, and Musinguzi builds bridges between current events, the historic moment of the Prayer Pilgrimage, and Friedlander\u2019s iconic images.<\/p>\n

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As part of Let Us March On, the BUAG will present the following programs:<\/em><\/p>\n

Gallery Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Photographic Book<\/em><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 15, 5:30pm |\u00a0Stone Gallery\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Conversation with Professor Kim\u00a0Sichel,\u00a0Associate Professor, History of Photography and Modern Art,\u00a0Boston University Department of History of Art and Architecture,\u00a0and\u00a0Peter\u00a0Kayafas, Director, Eakins Press\u00a0Foundation\u00a0and publisher of\u00a0Lee Friedlander: The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Panel\u00a0Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

They Were Always Marching:\u00a0African American\u00a0Women\u00a0and\u00a0the Civil Rights Movement\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 14, 6:00pm |\u00a0Stone Gallery\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exhibition closing reception will\u00a0immediately\u00a0follow the event.<\/p>\n

This panel will explore the\u00a0instrumental\u00a0role\u00a0and agency\u00a0of African American\u00a0women\u00a0in\u00a0the Civil Rights Movement, from local civic gatherings to shaping national policy. The efforts of women during this era were often overshadowed by\u00a0their male counterparts.This panel discusses\u00a0the\u00a0powerful contributions of women of color\u00a0in the creation of\u00a0social and political change\u00a0historically and today.<\/p>\n

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Let Us March On<\/em>\u00a0is organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and curated by La Tanya S. Autry,\u00a0Curator of Art and Civil Rights at the Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College and former\u00a0Marcia Brady Tucker Fellow, Yale University Art Gallery.\u00a0 Made possible by the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund and the James Maloney \u201972 Fund for Photography.<\/p>\n

Above image credit: Lee Friedlander,\u00a0Mahalia Jackson (at podium); first row: Mordecai Johnson, Bishop Sherman Lawrence Greene, Reverend Thomas J. Kilgore, Jr., and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/em>, from the series\u00a0Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom<\/em>, 1957, printed later. Gelatin silver print. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Maria and Lee Friedlander,\u00a0HON. 2004. \u00a9 Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco<\/p>\n

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