The Power of the Female Gaze exhibit at the Memorial Art Gallery
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For centuries, the male gaze has dominated the history of art and of artists. The active, heroic male artist studies and paints the passive, beautiful female model. Even today, our movies, television shows, and advertising favor the heterosexual male perspective by offering up the female form as an alluring and sexualized object. Here, we seek to examine an alternative question: What does it look like when women artists depict women?
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In honor of New York Women’s Suffrage Centennial in 2017, this exhibition explores the power of the female gaze in creating potent and complex images of mothers, thinkers, vixens, heroes, creators, warriors, and agitators.
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above: Kara Walker, The Emancipation Approximation (scene 18), 1999-2000; Kathleen McEnery Cunningham, Miriam McEnery, 1915; Elizabeth Catlett, Harriet, 1975; Suzanne Gutherz Warriner Portrait of a Standing Woman (det), 1902.
Presented in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State and in honor of MAG’s Gallery Council and Docents.
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Organization:
Memorial Art GalleryLocation:
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY, 14607United States
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585 276 8900Contact name:
Memorial Art Gallery P.R. Department
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The event has already taken place on this date:
09/03/2017
Time:
Wednesday-Sunday 11 am-5 pm Thursday 11 am-9 pm
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