No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor Group Show Curated by Alva Greenberg
No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor
Real Art Ways • 56 Arbor St, Hartford, CT 06106
February 27 – April 20, 2024
Real Art Ways presents a group exhibition curated by Alva Greenberg titled No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor. This exhibition will take up most of Real Art Ways gallery spaces featuring works from 25 artists. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 17 from 5-8pm, and will be on view through Saturday, April 20. Gallery hours are everyday from 2-9pm. Admission is free. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street, Hartford.
Clothing conveys impressions of social background, economic status, and ethnicity. Like physical features, it is one of the most common means used to project ourselves and understand others. This inclination to categorize others is also a way of controlling our responses to them.
The altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies disrupts these autonomic responses by playing with perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs, and portraiture itself. Being free of physical human bodies, the works in this exhibition force us to confront assumptions, as well as the ever-growing societal compartmentalization of people and behavior and the social media which increasingly rules our thinking.
After exhibiting at Real Art Ways, the show will be traveling to the Hudson River Museum for an exhibit opening on September 27, 2024.
Featured artists include Marsha Borden, Rachel Breen, Chris Burden, Patrick Carroll, Susan Clinard, Hannah Conradt, E.V. Day, Lesley Dill, Anindita Dutta, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Nina Dwin, Carlos Estévez, Kathryn Frund, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Jesse Krimes, Whitfield Lovell, Adriana Marmorek, Carol Paik, Sidney Russell, Karen Shaw, Jaune “Quick-to-See Smith”, Micki Watanabe Spiller, Cleo Wilkinson, and Cybèle Young.
Alva Greenberg
Alva Greenberg is a curator based in Connecticut. From 1997-2009, she ran ALVA Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in New London dedicated to promoting mid-career artists working in all disciplines.
In 2006, Alva Greenberg was a recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Center’s “25 of Connecticut’s Most Uncommon Women” award and in 2018 she received the State of Connecticut Governor’s Patron of the Arts award.
In 2016 Ms. Greenberg curated an exhibition entitled On Another Note: The Intersection of Art and Music as part of the International Festival of Art and Ideas in New Haven. An expanded version of the exhibition was on view at the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT. in 2018. In 2017 she was invited by the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts to curate an exhibition entitled Female/Feminist/2017.
In 2020 she co-curated with Bartholomew Bland, Executive Director, Lehman College Art Gallery, an exhibition for the college entitled Sound Vision: Harmonious Relationships in Art and Music. Due to the pandemic, the exhibition appeared only on-line.
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