Vessel: A Selection of Alumni Artworks from the Collection
The status of the body is neither overestimated nor reduced but extended in many directions, acting as a container for life force energies, a conduit through which we travel space and time, a unit of measure, a mediator, a flesh machine. The artworks traverse physical planes, the bardo states, and limitless natural forces, while holding onto the physical form like a kite line through which a sense of grounding might again be found.
Featured artists: Astrid Bowlby, Eiko Fan, Aaron Fowler, Herbert George, Dara Haskins, Jotham Malavé Maldonado, Anne Minich, Kate Moran, Sarah Peters, Huston Ripley
Artwork: Astrid Bowlby (b. 1961). The sea is so wide, and my boat is so small, 2017. Brush, ink, marker, and glitter on paper, Museum Purchase, 2020.3.
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