Pleasure & Protest in Contemporary Figure Painting

Pleasure and Protest in Contemporary Figure Painting
Pleasure & Protest is a group exhibition featuring the work of Jackie Gendel, Lovie Olivia, Yana Payusova, Alexis Pye, and Keer Tanchak. Conceptual threads connecting these five artists center on exploring or re-situating domestic craft and decorative art practices in relation to painting the figure. They employ strategies of pattern, gesture, and repetition through a range of materials and methods including watercolor, fresco-secco, wallpaper, clay, and embroidery. Their works celebrate handwork and revel in the pleasures of tactile surfaces, decoration, and ornamentation.

Over forty years on from the groundbreaking Pattern and Decoration art movement, works by these five artists prompt fresh discussion about the renewed value of craft in contemporary art practices. Collectively their work protests against hierarchies in subject and material, and their concerns in paint reflect current feminist discourse about cultural identity, representation, and making.

Guest Curator: Sara-Jayne Parsons, Director and Curator of The Art Galleries at TCU
IMPORTANT DATES

Exhibition on View
January 25 - March 16, 2024

Opening Reception:

January 25, 2024, 5:00-8:00 pm

Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery

Visiting Artists & Critics Lecture: Sara-Jayne Parsons

January 24, 2024, 6:00 pm

Chapman Foundation Recital Hall, Ent Center for the Arts

Visiting Artists & Critics Lecture

March 14, 2024, 6:00 pm

Chapman Foundation Recital Hall, Ent Center for the Arts

Gallery hours:
Thursday - Saturday, 1 - 6 p.m., or by appointment
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