Artists in Conversation
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We welcome artists and designers at any stage of their career to come together in-person with fellow artists for informal discussions about work on view in the galleries. Explore questions of gender and bodily expression in Western paintings in the Grand Gallery with artist and scholar Cicek Beeby. The conversation will be guided with questions such as: How are gender norms delineated through bodies in art? What roles do skin, nudity, gaze, hair, clothing, and adornment play? How do postures, gestures, and emotional expressions map onto gender? Can we spot fluidities and transgressions? Participants will start with a close-looking exercise at an 18th-century painting, and divide into groups to explore more within the gallery.
Free. To attend this in-person program, please click the register button below. Space is limited and light refreshments will be provided.
Cicek Beeby is an archaeologist, art historian, and visual artist. Her academic work spans from funerary practices, art of bodies and emotions, myth and storytelling, and gender and sexuality. Her own art focuses on similar themes, with the addition of the exploration of her complex Turkish-born American identity. Her work has been exhibited across New England. She is passionate about art activism, museum pedagogy, and creative ways of bridging academia, art, and public learning. Following her Ph.D in Classics and archaeology, she held fellowships and taught at various institutions, including the Getty Research Institute, New York University, and most recently at Brown.