Fine Arts Center Gallery Presents: 'A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000'

Katherine Bernhardt, Pink Pink Panther, 2016, Acrylic and sprayed paint on canvas, 72 x 60 in.
Courtesy of the artist and CANADA, New York

Katherine Bernhardt, Pink Pink Panther, 2016, Acrylic and sprayed paint on canvas, 72 x 60 in.

The Department of Art in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the exhibition, A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000 for the Fine Arts Center Gallery. The exhibition will run through Sept. 22. There will be a reception with the curator, Jason Stopa, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, and a lecture will follow at 5:30 p.m. at Hillside Auditorium, room 206. Both events are free and open to the public.

A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000 is an exhibition composed entirely of paintings by women that attempts to categorize Expressionism in new terms. Referencing cartoons, fashion spreads, and personal narratives, the artists address the fragmentation of individual subjectivity in a technological world. The new figuration is thereby performative, rather than prescriptive, and both the absurd and sincere approaches alike are embraced as subject matter by the artists in the exhibition.

The exhibition features the following artists: Gina Beavers, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Jackie Gendel, Liz Markus, and Rose Wylie. A New Subjectivity was organized in collaboration with Pratt Manhattan Gallery and curated by Jason Stopa, an artist, critic and professor.

Following its time at the University of Arkansas, A New Subjectivity will travel to the Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Oct. 16 to Dec. 15.

Contacts

Marc Mitchell, curator and director of exhibitions
Fine Arts Center Gallery
479-575-7987, mmitch@uark.edu

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