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September 04
- October 28, 2008
• The
Body as Image
Art Exhibition
Works by: Amy Caron, Katie Commodore, Sol Kjøk, Philip
Pearlstein, Kristi Ropeleski, Diana Schmertz, Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig
at the Center 
http://philoctetes.org/exhibitions/the_body_as_image/
As a literal and figurative backdrop to Sextet: Six
Roundtables on The Biology and Psychology of Sexuality, the Philoctetes
Center presents the
exhibition, The Body as Image. Eight artists explore diversity—and
occasionally perversity—in the terrain of the human physique. Tattooed,
trussed, spinning aloft, brazen or coy, alone or with partners, the figures
in these paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs capture the human form
in settings both real and imagined. How do the images appeal to our prurient
interests, our voyeuristic impulses, our aesthetic ideals?
Diana Schmertz’s absorption in the
interplay of fingers and flesh is highlighted in the arrangement of her
multi-part tondo oil paintings, while Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig’s collaborations
result in a kind of double exposure, a figurative pas de deux.
Idealized, almost post-sexual forms twist into knots in Sol Kjøk’s swirling compositions, while Philip Pearlstein
uses line and tone to embody his vital, realist nudes. Kristi Ropeleski hurls plump bodies skyward or captures frank,
full frontal gazes, while Amy Caron skewers the stick-figure ethos of modern
marketing and Katie Commodore inscribes a multiplicity of sexual stances onto
a color-chip quilt.
The exhibition may be viewed M-F from 11:00AM to 5:00PM, and by appointment. Please call 646-422-0544 or
email info@philoctetes.org to make arrangements.
Exhibition curated by Hallie Cohen, Chair, Art Department,
Marymount Manhattan College.
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July 5 – August 31, 2008
• BOOK OF SWELLS
Solo Show
at the Nordic Museum
of Drawing, Sweden
www.teckningsmuseet.se
REVIEWS:
• Hallandsposten August 12, 2008:
Britte Montigny, ”Ekvilibristisk teknik och akrobatik”
[Equilibristic Technique and Acrobatics]
• Skånska Dagbladet July 25, 2008:
Helmer Lång, ”Mycket mer än människokroppar”
[Much More Than
Human Bodies]
NEWS
ARTICLES:
•Absolutearts.com July 7, 2008:
”Sol Kjøk’s Book of Swells
at the Nordic Museum
of Drawing”
• Hallandsposten July 5,
2008:
Cristopher Lembke, ”Visar kroppar i
rörelse”
[Shows Bodies
in Motion]
• Laholms Tidning July 4, 2008:
Åse Höijer, ”Kroppar är hennes motiv”
[Bodies Are Her Subject]
• Svenskt Kulturarv July 4, 2008:
”Skaparkraft” [Creative
Power]
• Kulturstan July 4, 2008:
”Fångar kroppar i rörelse”
[Captures Bodies in Motion]
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