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February 12 - March 26, 2011
CAA Panel Discussion
The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture
Saturday February 12, 2011
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Artists Reception
Saturday February 12, 2011
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Gallery hours: Noon - 5:00 pm
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TABLA RASA GALLERY
224 48 Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
Brooklyn, NY 11220
718. 833-9100
info@TablaRasaGallery.com
http://www.tablarasagallery.com/
Tabla Rasa Gallery is pleased announce a groundbreaking exhibition of artwork by Clarity Haynes, "Radical Acceptance," and to host a 2011 College Art Association Conference Special Event, an artists' reception and panel discussion, “The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Thirty five original contemporary paintings and works on paper will be on display, ranging in scale from the monumental to the miniature. Gallerist Audrey Anastasi says, "Ms. Haynes is a prolific artist, with remarkable skill and an exceptional talent for rendering human flesh and form. This series epitomizes both the tenderness and power of her vision."
There will be panel discussion, “The Feminist Breast: Women, Nudity and Portraiture”, from 12:30 pm until 2:00 pm, followed by an opening reception from 2:00 pm until 4:30 pm.
Panelists include Brandon Brame Fortune, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery; artist Kathleen Gilje; art historian Diane Radycki, Director of the Payne Gallery and Associate Professor at Moravian College; Patricia Cronin, artist and Associate Professor at Brooklyn College; artist Clarity Haynes, and models from the exhibition, Wilhelmina Obatola Grant and Robin Burdulis. Moderated by Beth Gersh-Nesic, Director of the New York Arts Exchange.
An exhibition catalogue will be available with an essay by Beth Gersh-Nesic and an introduction by Brandon Brame Fortune, and 15% of the proceeds from catalogue sales will benefit Gilda’s Club NYC, an organization "where no one has to face cancer alone."
The author of the exhibition’s catalogue essay describes the project:
“Clarity Haynes began the Breast Portrait Project in 1998 with her own nude self-portrait. She found the experience transformative and decided to offer this opportunity to other women. Since then she has sought out and found enthusiastic participants at women’s festivals, fairs and similar events. Each sitter enters Haynes booth to pose, record her thoughts in a book (often handwritten there and then), and consent to having a photograph taken of her nude torso alongside the finished portrait....To date, Haynes has completed over 500 breast portraits...As each breast portrait contributes to the whole and the whole grows in number, the artistic effect intensifies. And changes. A full wall of portraits transforms the individual identities into a collective narrative about the human condition: its diversity, its vulnerability, its challenges to survive.”
-- Beth Gersh-Nesic, The New York Arts Exchange
“Clarity Haynes’ Breast Portrait Project allows women to see themselves as strong individuals, empowered through the process of art making. There is a history of women painting the nude, and Haynes’ work fits into and expands that history”
-- curator Brandon Brame Fortune, The National Portrait Gallery
Clarity Haynes states:”Historically, the painted portrait signifies privilege, beauty, and social power. I choose to portray real women”s bodies, which are often invisible in this culture. The time and attention to detail inherent in the portrait process make the intrinsic statement that this body is beautiful and worthy.”
This exhibition is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.
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