Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports

October 8–December 12, 2009

Guest Curator: Christopher Bedford

Organized by iCI (Independent Curators International)

Mixed Signals focuses on artists from the mid-1990s to the present who question the notion of the male athlete as the last bastion of uncomplicated, authentic identity in American culture during the preceding decades. The works presented here, made by artists who have appropriated, riffed on, complicated, and variously re-presented athletic imagery, demonstrate that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous, polyvalent figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before.

The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the iCI Advocates, the iCI Partners, Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and Barbara and John Robinson.

Mixed Signals is an expanded version of Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets--Masculinity and Sports, an exhibition curated by Bedford and organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Dana Hoey: Experiments in Primitive Living

January 28-March 20, 2010

Curator: Dr. Maurice Berger, Senior Research Scholar, CADVC

Organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC

This exhibition and catalog will focus on a recent cycle of 50 color photographs by New York artist Dana Hoey—Experiments in Primitive Living.

A supplementary exhibition featuring examples from several of Hoey’s other recent projects will complete the project, including Pattern Recognition (2006) and Moon Bitches (2002).

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For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Venues:

International Center of Photography, New York
May 12-September 5, 2010

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Summer 2011

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC
Fall 2013

Others to be determined

Curator: Maurice Berger, Senior Research Scholar, CADVC

Organized in partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights represents the first comprehensive exhibition and publication to look at the role played by visual images in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States. It will look at images in both high and popular culture, tracking the ways they represented race in order to perpetuate the status quo, stimulate dialogue, or change prevailing beliefs and attitudes. For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is comprised of over 250 objects, including posters, photographs, graphic art, magazines, newspapers, books, pamphlets, political buttons, comic books, toys, postcards, and clips from film, newsreels, and television.

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Top Photo: Eikoh Hosoe: META