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Posted August 15, 2014 in Member News

SPE Member Work featured in "Positive ID: Bodies & Subjectivities in Photo" Exhibition at Northern Virginia Community College

Positive ID: Bodies & Subjectivities in Photo exhibition runs August 26 through September 26, 2014 at Northern Virginia Community College.

Opening reception will take place on Thursday, August 28, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm.

Positive ID focuses on contemporary photographic works by new and established artists who investigate identity through the locus of the body that emerges as a result of existing in hybrid cultural, political, and economic spaces. The selected artists for Positive ID address a number of identificatory issues, that include the bodily relation to space, interpersonal relationships, transnationality, age, ephemerality, race, body distortion, gender and transgender.

Selected Artists:
Robert Dupree (NY), Linda Adele Goodine (IN), Lamia Khorshid (FL), Sara Northerner (KY), Rhashia Sawyer (VA), Charles Sessoms (DC), Clarissa Sligh (NC), Aiden Simon (NY), Daniel Alexander Smith (IN), Suzanne Szucs (MN), and Erin Zerbe (MI).

Body art, performativity, identity, subjectivity. Since the 1980s when pluralism opened visual art exhibition practice to a multitude of other artistic voices, and the 1990s when the global emphasis in art grew exponentially, the resonances of identity politics in the use of the body has fueled curatorial interest as well as provided a subject for the rapidly changing media of photography. The body's strategic use of disruption and estrangement, coupled with its presence within the photograph's innate "realism," strips the spectator of their complacency. Whether under the artist's directorial vision, or by control over the depiction of their own body, the subjectivities created in the space of the photograph interrupt the viewer's critical awareness in order to rethink gender, sexuality, representation, and the hierarchies of power in society and in the history of art itself.

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Northern Virginia Community College is the largest institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and one of America's largest community colleges. NOVA enrolls more than 75,000 students at its six campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and from Washington, D.C., with a diverse population of over 11,000 students each year, and is distinguished in the NOVA system by its arts curriculum and programming, essential to the cultural landscape of the Northern Virginia region. Honoring the diversity of our students and the region we serve, exhibitions incorporate art from a variety of cultures and approaches. We strive to foster collaborations between students, artists, and scholars to produce exhibitions that interpret visual art in a broader, humanities context. Further emphasis is placed upon art that is experimental and cross-disciplinary in focus.

For more information about NOVA and its programs or services, call 703-323-3000 or visit the College's website, www.nvcc.edu.

For further information on this exhibition, contact Gallery Director, Erin Devine. The Gallery is located on the first floor of the Arts & Sciences Building and is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Thursday, 11-5pm.

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