“Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze” at SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco from November 4 to November 30, 2011 with Tanya Augsburg, Associate Professor SFSU as juror.

 

National Juried Exhibition presented at SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco from November 4 to November 30, 2011. Priscilla Otani and I received the SOMArts Commons Curatorial Residency. This exhibition re-envisions gender, society and the politics of exposure. With a gallery filled with men stripped naked, this body of work exposes women’s cheeky, provocative and sometimes shocking commentaries on the opposite sex. The exhibition’s contemporary scope encompasses all the ways that women view Man-as-Object, reversing the traditional view of male artists objectifying women. Its diverse perspectives on masculinity come from straight, transsexual, transgender, lesbian and multi-cultural artists through a spectrum of media, from paintings to sculpture, installations to performance, video to social media. Tanya Augsburg, Associate Professor SFSU chose 108 works by 105 artists in the gallery and an additional 89 artists in this catalog with 12 invited featured artists and their work. Exhibition website and Video.

 

View the exhibition catalog here.

Shown at the Kinsey Institute Gallery, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana from April – June 2012 with 40 of the original 117 works chosen for this gallery.