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Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports

  •  Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
  •  Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
  •  Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports

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Photographer Collier Schorr has said, “I want to show the whole temperature of masculinity because—and I can only approach it as a woman—from the outside, masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms.” Accordingly, the artists selected for this exhibition reject such comfortable “black-and-white” imagery. Catherine Opie focuses on the dramatic spectacle of high school football, zeroing in on a tense moment of anticipation just as the players are ready to spring into action, while Brian Jungen sets up a meditative stack of boxes repeating the mesmerizing stare of legendary basketball star, Michael Jordan. Hank Willis Thomas’s photographs deconstruct the ways in which race and sexuality are exploited to brand and market male athletes; and Joe Sola’s video works assume an outsider’s perspective on football, addressing the social exclusivity of competitive athletics through humor and farce.

Several artists and theorists have argued convincingly that social identities—including race, gender, and sexuality—are performed, coded, and contingent. However, the male athlete has been overlooked by artists, art historians and curators until fairly recently, because it is only in the past decade that a critical mass of art addressing this subject has grown large enough to allow for such an exploration.

Mixed Signals is an expanded version of Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets: Masculinity and American Sports, an exhibition organized by Christopher Bedford for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in fall 2008.

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touring schedule

Cranbrook Art Museum
Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

The Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
January 1, 1970 - July 8, 2011

Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury, VT, United States
March 2, 2011 - January 1, 1970

Art Gallery of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
January 1, 1970 - April 9, 2010

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH, United States
January 1, 1970 - November 4, 2010

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
Baltimore, MD, United States
August 10, 2009 - December 12, 2009

Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, United States
January 9, 1998 - February 11, 1998

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