New year opens with 'More Than Skin Deep' exhibit
Dec. 13, 2010
http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2010/12/028.shtmlKALAMAZOO--The art exhibition "More Than Skin Deep: Portraits as Socio-Cultural-Political Commentary" will open Thursday, Jan. 13, at Western Michigan University. The exhibit will be on display in the Monroe-Brown Gallery at the University's Richmond Center for Visual Arts through Feb. 18.
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In her "Gender Series," Nancy Froehlich takes a look at transgender issues and the private and public display of transvestites she befriended while living in Baltimore.
"In my photography work I challenge the notion of gender as static and question the limiting binary choice of male or female," Froehlich says. "It is in this series that I found what I had set out to achieve: images that cross the line between male and female. With these images, a shade of gray between male and female, I explore the notion of gender as fluid and transformative, not static, and ask the viewer to question their own assumptions when it comes to issues of gender."
