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Dressed Up
Hope Gangloff, Marcia Kure, and Neeta Madahar

October 11, 2013–April 13, 2014

Kemper Museum

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This exhibition presents works of art—photography, collage, and paintings—that exist at the intersection of nature, culture, artifice, and perception. The theater of the self, influenced by art history, pop culture, and fashion, takes center stage in this international exhibition. Every picture in this visually lush exhibition tells an aspect of the story of our times. Photographs of constructed realities in the Flora series were created in collaboration between Neeta Madahar and the subjects of the portraits. African American Hip Hop culture meets Victorian excess in a series of watercolor-and-photo collages by Nigerian-born Marcia Kure. Hope Gangloff, who lives and works in up-state New York, creates a very contemporary take on the portrait tradition with a record of her artist community comrades and paints portraits of her friends that capture a very 21st-century aesthetic of clothing and mood combined with a 19th-century love of line and gesture.

Neeta Madahar, Sharon with Peonies, 2009; edition 3/9, chromogenic hand print on paper, 40 x 30 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Howard Yeserski Gallery