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CARRIE BEALL LANIA D’AGOSTINO KRIS GREY JASON HOROWITZ JAIMES MAYHEW

THE SILBER ART GALLERY Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum | Goucher College

“ EACH OF US IS MEANT TO HAVE A CHARACTER ALL OUR OWN, TO BE WHAT NO OTHER CAN EXACTLY BE, AND DO WHAT NO OTHER CAN EXACTLY DO.” William Ellery Channing

In OTHER, a new art exhibit at Goucher College, five artists—Carrie Beall, Lania D’Agostino, Kris Grey, Jason Horowitz, and Jaimes Mayhew—explore various aspects of gender. Through video, painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, these artists give the viewer a glimpse, from their perspective, of what it means to be “other” within the current social climate. The diverse works in this exhibit portray more than gendernormative stereotypes; they delve into the psyche, the personal, and the political. Notions of ambiguity, fluidity, and change lead the viewer to explore the concept of gender.

— Laura Amussen, Curator

CARRIE BEALL

Carrie Beall explores gender expression through clothing and costuming herself in self-portraits. Her work transports selfidentity and the childhood act of playing “dress-up” into the adult realm. She uses the act of undressing and the element of “reveal” throughout her work to address the nature of society’s desire to know what is underneath by using body parts to assign gender.

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Nest 2013 charcoal on panel 72” x 42”

LANIA D’AGOSTINO

Temple of Transformation 2013 mixed media dimensions variable

Lania D’Agostino is an international life cast sculptor for the museum industry. For the last six years, she has been casting the bodies of individuals who consider themselves transgender. The figures are casts of people during different stages of their transformation, showing changes in their body either by use of hormones or surgery. In this series of paintings and sculptures, D’Agostino focuses on the spectrum of gender with a focus on the fluidity of masculine and feminine aspects within everyone.

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KRIS GREY

Kris Grey’s work, Suspicious Packages, is a 10-minute video that features the torso of the artist, who is methodically packing household and utilitarian objects. Through the meditative action of choosing an item, placing it, or discarding it, the artist is questioning not only gendered expectations of masculinity, but also proper public appearance. It was originally commissioned and produced for the 2012 ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art, an international contemporary arts festival.

The video was on public display, looping continuously for a week in the window of the only sex toy store in Kuopio, Finland.

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Suspicious Packages 2012 single-channel video duration 10:07

JASON HOROWITZ

Shi-Queeta Lee 2008 archival pigment print 42” x 63”

Jason Horowitz’s provocative large-scale and extreme close-up photographs of drag queens conjure a number of reactions. The theatrical artifice of the makeup, similar to a mask, is at once concealing and revealing. The viewer is shocked, drawn in, immersed, and fascinated, yet may feel a bit squeamish. Horowitz plays with the tension between attraction and repulsion. The over-the-top vamping and exhibitionist joy of drag queens is tempered by a simultaneous sadness and introspection.

By exploding scale, he reveals not only the fascinating visual terrain of the face, but also challenges hidden biases about femininity and masculinity, beauty and ugliness, gay culture, race, sexuality, and aging.

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JAIMES MAYHEW

Jaimes Mayhew’s work is inspired by ecoqueer and eco-feminist notions of power and ecology, as well as his own experience as a transgender person and his family of geologists and ecologists. Ways To Change The Body/Land is a series of photos taken out of a car window in Iceland with instructions that suggest small ways the viewer could change social, political, cultural, physical, or ecological contexts of a body or landscape. These instructions incite a call to action but do not assign the power needed to follow through. This abstraction leaves room for questions. Mayhew believes people assign meaning to both landscapes and bodies in similar ways and seeks to question perceptions of property.

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Ways To Change The Body/Land 2013 archival Inkjet print 32” x 24”

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CARRIE BEALL LANIA D’AGOSTINO KRIS GREY JASON HOROWITZ JAIMES MAYHEW

September 2 – October 12, 2014 ARTISTS’ RECEPTION

Friday, September 19, 6-9 p.m.

(Artists’ talk at 7:30 p.m.)

THE SILBER ART GALLERY Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum | Goucher College DIRECTIONS

Baltimore Beltway, I-695, to exit 27A. Make first left onto campus.

GALLERY HOURS 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday – Sunday 410-337-6477

The Silber Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.

www.goucher.edu/silber

15060-3101 08/14

The exhibit is free and open to the public.