Opening Reception for "White Boys," curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha LoganOpening Reception for "White Boys," curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Loganhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/212641WCC Art Gallery2013-03-22T17:30:002013-03-22T19:30:00
March 22, 5:30PM
WCC Art Gallery
Philip Metz, iwishiwas, 2007, Digital C-print, 38 x 27.5"
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White Boys
Friday, March 22–Friday, May 3, 2013
Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha L. Logan, White Boys charts the ways artists are aestheticizing white, male identity in the United States today. Privilege, invisibility, fear, anxiety, purity, emptiness, cowardice–whiteness and masculinity conjure an array of competing associations, emotions and imagery. Taken together, they present a perspective paradoxically ever-present and ever-absent: white is both the sum of all colors and no color at all. But how have whiteness and masculinity 'evolved' as relational constructs vis-a-vis blackness, femininity, and sexuality, modes of otherness that have often been scrutinized and alienated? Where are these terms' entrenchments, and where do they become more pliant? Through photography, video, painting, printmaking and sculpture, the 'white' and 'non-white' artists of White Boys variously imagine male whiteness within this broader network of racial and sexual tropes and identities, marking seeming commonalities and more subtle gradations.
White Boys is made possible with the support of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program. haverford.edu/hcah
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