Talk by "White Boys" exhibition co-curators Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan

Talk by "White Boys" exhibition co-curators Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Loganhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/219061WCC Art Gallery2013-03-22T16:30:002013-03-22T17:30:00

March 22, 4:30PM

WCC Art Gallery

Description

Co-curators Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan will lead a gallery talk in coordination with the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibition White Boys. Opening Reception to follow from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha 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 other modes of otherness, modes often 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

Link: http://www.haverford.edu/exhibits/

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Matthew Callinan
Campus Exhibitions Coordinator
mcallina@haverford.edu
610-896-1287