On View: June 27 - Sept 11
Rachel Livedalen
Copy of the Original is Rachel Livedalen's solo exhibition featuring a series of works on panel that combine screen printed layers of Greco-Roman textbook pages with airbrush and gouache. Structured information depicted in these works relate to the construction and continuation of the art history canon and the way in which we understand visual culture. Textual information is stretched, morphed, or veiled, then layered with different modes of visual information like coded symbols, colorful shapes, or erased gestures. The exhibition questions our understanding of visual information both from academic art history and popular culture as it relates to beauty, feminine representation, and artifice. Specifically, the exhibition analyzes the Knidian Aphrodite, the first sculpture of a female nude in Greek art that now only exists as a Roman copy. This canonical work from western art history thus embodies ideas of representation and reproduction throughout history.
Rachel Livedalen’s creative practice explores representations of femininity through the lens of art history, visual culture, and consumerism. She earned her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. Rachel is currently an Associate Professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas and heads the printmaking area. Her work has been supported by a fellowship and residency at the Kala Art Institute and by the artist program at Eastern State Penitentiary. She exhibits her interdisciplinary work widely and is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX.
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