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FLESH OUT
Expressing the gendered, cultural, and generational concerns of fourth wave feminism, this group exhibition addressed the various modes of desire, fragmentation, and anxiety embedded within a culture of discrimination toward female-identifying and queer bodies. Enlisting the body as site, image, and/or tool, each artist suggests the possibility of a mended world through empathetic, vulnerable, and sometimes absurd gestures of self-preservation, courage, hope, and love.
Participating artists: Paige Nicole Gordon, Fuko Ito, Lueking Knabe, Isabella Matute, Lilly McElroy, Trish Nixon, Madison Mae Parker and Rye Lanae Boothe, Madelyn Stewart, Phoebe Varisco, and Lauren Louvel Louise Whitacre. Related programs included performances, a writing workshop, and a quilting workshop; and the exhibition facilitated the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s equal opportunity training for the Neosho Fish Hatchery staff. Flesh Out was presented by UMKC Gallery of Art and UMKC Violence Prevention and Response Program to create platforms for discussion and action around sexual violence prevention.