Root Division presents
Family Pictures
- When
- Sat Jul 11, 2009
- Where
- Root Division
- Time
- 7-10pm
- Tags
- Galleries, Mixed Media, Family
Description
When curator Michelle Townsend first proposed the exhibition Family Pictures, she was not yet expecting what would became a baby boy, born at the precise time she was to review submissions. Just as baby Nolan chose to be born outside the confines of a typical 9-month gestation, so to the 33 artists in Family Pictures have chosen to defy orthodox definitions of family. Bay Area artists (and curators) are shaking off the trappings of gender, age, and bloodline.We, a most strange and adaptive species, are looking for, and finding, fresh ways to experience belonging. The age of the nuclear family was, in retrospect, sterile and pale.
Art has always been a form of protest and Family Pictures does not digress. There is an underlying fever in the work, a pie-in-the-face aimed at any formula for genealogical harmony. Perhaps one should not be surprised, bearing in mind the recent politicization and subsequent dis-allowance of something as integral to family life as marriage.
More Info
- Link
- http://www.rootdivision.org
- Call
- 415.863.7668
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