Out of Body brings together works from the Brodsky Center at PAFA’s collection that focus on ideas of physicality, transformation, autonomy, and control of bodies. In conversation with PAFA’s Joan Semmel exhibition, Skin in the Game, these works question the ways that we consider the freedom and form of our own bodies and those of others, using techniques in printmaking and papermaking.
The work of Lynda Benglis and Joan Semmel find the tangibility of a body in motion, while a new edition by Sharon Hayes examines the removal of physical autonomy when bodies are controlled by public assumptions. A portfolio by Chitra Ganesh juxtaposes delicate marks with grotesque corporeal forms, while Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Emma Amos and Faith Ringgold manifest a celebration of bodies through movement and self-love, and Carrie Mae Weems and Isaac Julien explore the rejection of Black bodies from white cultural spaces. This exhibition asks the viewer to contextualize their views of the body, and to re-think ingrained ideals and expectations around the human form.
The Brodsky Center at PAFA is an Artist Residency Program that serves to educate students as well as develop and promote the work of outstanding innovative artists. Since its establishment under Founding Director Judith K. Brodsky, the Center has completed over 660 limited editions with a diverse range of emerging and established artists, including the work on view in this exhibition.
To learn more about the Brodsky Center and works available for sale, please visit www.brodskycenter.com or contact lwerrell@pafa.org.
This exhibition is organized by Leigh Werrell, Art Sales Manager at PAFA.
Out of Body features works by artists Emma Amos, Lynda Benglis, Elizabeth Catlett, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Willie Cole, Chitra Ganesh, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Sharon Hayes, Barkley Hendricks, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Sarah McEneaney, Irina Nakhova, Chris Ofili, Faith Ringgold, Joan Semmel, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Didier William,
September 16, 2021 – January 2, 2022
School of Fine Arts Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
128 N. Broad Street