Please join us for the opening celebrations for our
Fall 2018 Season
Thursday, September 6, 5:30pm
Tisch Family and Koppelman Galleries
Aidekman Arts Center / 40 Talbot Ave / Medford
Expressions Unbound
features works by the foremost self-taught artists of the 20th century, including
Thornton Dial, Howard Finster, Bessie Harvey, William L. Hawkins, Mary T. Smith, Jimmy Lee Sudduth,
and
Purvis Young,
that comprise the recent and groundbreaking gift by alumnus Andrew and Linda Safran. The Safran Collection marks the first major contribution of American outsider art to the school and is the largest single-collection addition of works by African American artists to the collection. The exhibition celebrates the work of 19 artists who exemplify modes of regional art making that have long lived outside the academy but have had enormous impact on visual culture and the arts.
States of Freedom
offers a transhistorical glimpse into select artistic practices, from past to present, in which the body appears fragmented, flattened, or collaged.
At a moment when what constitutes the human body is under renewed scrutiny—by science, law, and political discourse—artists are readdressing the figure in ever-new and surprising ways. Arriving on the heels of the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein
, this exhibition reminds us that the question “What is human?” has endured and will likely continue to do so for centuries to come.
States of Freedom
features work from the University’s rare book and art collections alongside sculpture, video, and paintings by contemporary artists
Derrick Adams, A.K. Burns, Kate Costello, Harry Dodge, Anna K.E., Lucy Kim, Kiki Kogelnik, Maria Lassnig, Karen Moss, Jeanine Oleson, Lorna Simpson,
and
Alexandria Smith
.
