Off-Spring: New Generations

A pioneer of painted figuration, American artist Judy Fox infuses the Western figurative tradition with a contemporary consciousness of the body that addresses the development and expression of identity. Presented together for the first time, Power Play combines two related installations featuring four children with an adult of the opposite gender; the girls and a woman are posed as different cultural or ethnographic embodiments of femininity, while the boys and man enact varying typologies of masculine… Show more domination, effectively creating an immersive family tableau and a global, timeless theater of gender politics. Rituals—religious and cultural, institutional and domestic—provide the thematic infrastructure for the works featured in OFF-SPRING: New Generations. Like Fox’s explorations of identity, childhood, family, history, and gender politics, these sculptures, paintings, photographs, and videos employ iconographic imagery to reveal how we live, love, and learn in the 21st century. At the baptismal font or the family dinner table, within the fantasy of childhood play or the familiarity of grown-up habit, these new, old narratives amplify or extend aspects of Power Play, generating a spectrum of meditations on the contemporary construction of self and society.
Featured artists include Gerhard Demetz, Anthony Goicolea, Gottfried Helnwein, Ellen Kooi, leonardogillesfleur, Guy Ben Ner, Julie Nord, Josephine Taylor, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Vee Speers. This exhibition will be on view throughout the first and second floor gallery spaces until June 2013.

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