ARTISTS
Flex
22 Feb, 2020 - 07 Jun, 2020
"FLEX" considers intersections of muscular physiques and heroic images, how they represent changing notions of bravery, beauty, and health. Sculpted bodies become sites of desire, power, and cultural performance, where different types of identity acquire definition, much as muscles do. This exhibition demonstrates how certain classical ideals are referenced and re-articulated in modern art and media, whether employed to authorize or to interrogate modern constructions of masculinity. Dramatic physical transformations are often accompanied by a rhetoric of self-improvement along with rituals of self-devotion, which might tacitly or explicitly endorse ageism or ableism. "FLEX" looks carefully at muscled images, but also reflects upon the unrelenting gaze through which bodies are continually scrutinized, criticized, and corrected鈥攊f not perfected.
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"FLEX" considers intersections of muscular physiques and heroic images, how they represent changing notions of bravery, beauty, and health. Sculpted bodies become sites of desire, power, and cultural performance, where different types of identity acquire definition, much as muscles do. This exhibition demonstrates how certain classical ideals are referenced and re-articulated in modern art and media, whether employed to authorize or to interrogate modern constructions of masculinity. Dramatic physical transformations are often accompanied by a rhetoric of self-improvement along with rituals of self-devotion, which might tacitly or explicitly endorse ageism or ableism. "FLEX" looks carefully at muscled images, but also reflects upon the unrelenting gaze through which bodies are continually scrutinized, criticized, and corrected鈥攊f not perfected.
Artists on show
- Andrés Serrano
- Anthony J. Sansone
- Bob Mizer
- Bruce of Los Angeles
- Chie Fueki
- Edwin F. Townsend
- Elliott Erwitt
- Gregor Arax
- Harry Benson
- Hendrick Goltzius
- J. Fiber
- James Esber
- John Lesnick
- Ken Heyman
- Kurt Markus
- Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
- Lon of New York
- Lucy Kim
- Michael Stokes
- Nancy Spero
- Nick Cave
- Paul Harding
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Russ Warner
- Skip Faulkner
Contact details
Sunday
12:00 - 5:00 PM
Tuesday - Friday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
12:00 - 5:00 PM
815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY, USA 12866
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