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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for What Are You Looking At? (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:What are you looking at?\nAn art show in five acts \nOn view at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\nJanuary 16 – April 20\, 2025 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, January 16\, 2025\, 6 to 8 PM \nDaniel Cavanaugh :: Kelwin Coleman :: Norbert Garcia Jr. ::\nBouffant Bouffant :: Scott Mabe \nThere is a fantastic space where no one lives. It exists in between the subject and the artist. These five artists work with the photographic image to present this space—from the extraordinarily faithful to the imagined confessional. A Grecian urn houses the ashes of the dead while their story is festooned on its hide; John Keats asks in “Ode to A Grecian Urn\,” What men or gods are these? Portraiture is our modern day Grecian urn. Within these works\, masculinity is held inside the shape of loss\, though its history remains immortalized upon the exterior. Comparably\, Marsden Hartley’s Portrait of a German Officer presents the essence of this ideology. Often the emotional and representational implications of the work are overshadowed by its painterly formal aspects\, which creates a disservice to the genre of portraiture. Hartley’s portrait of his lover Karl Von Freyburg\, who went to war and died\, is depicted through no human form. We see dramatic colors and brushstrokes outline both emotion and explanation. And now\, daily\, we consume portraits without question and make the absorption digestible\, further simplifying the genre. This exhibition asks the viewer to see beyond the obvious. Yes\, the artists are queer. Yes\, there is queer celebration and contemplation. \nYes\, there is sex but what is beyond the exterior? \nWhat are you looking at? \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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