Shapeshifting: Transformations on Paper
Explore five centuries of the artifice of identity鈥� from the splendid metamorphoses of classical myths to the posturing and bodily reinvention of contemporary drag culture. Shapeshifting includes approximately 50 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists鈥� books from the BMA鈥檚 collection that explore transformation and masquerade as recurring themes of artistic imagination across time and place.
Graphic works by Margaret Burroughs, Th茅odore Chass茅riau, Zackary Drucker, Samuel Fosso, Hendrick Goltzius, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Gerda Wegener, and others depict ever-changing narratives in the physical and social world. Collectively, these works demonstrate shifting forms of personal and political subjectivity and explore how art subverts traditional structures based on assumed dichotomies of natural/unnatural and binary gender.
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Explore five centuries of the artifice of identity鈥� from the splendid metamorphoses of classical myths to the posturing and bodily reinvention of contemporary drag culture. Shapeshifting includes approximately 50 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists鈥� books from the BMA鈥檚 collection that explore transformation and masquerade as recurring themes of artistic imagination across time and place.
Graphic works by Margaret Burroughs, Th茅odore Chass茅riau, Zackary Drucker, Samuel Fosso, Hendrick Goltzius, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Gerda Wegener, and others depict ever-changing narratives in the physical and social world. Collectively, these works demonstrate shifting forms of personal and political subjectivity and explore how art subverts traditional structures based on assumed dichotomies of natural/unnatural and binary gender.
