Beyond Identity
May 15–July 27, 2009
Teaching Gallery
Teaching Gallery
Organized in conjunction with the Diversity Arts Youth Program to be held at Washington University in St. Louis this summer, this Teaching Gallery installation brings together works from the Kemper Art Museum's permanent collection that address and complicate topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Artworks by Glenn Ligon, Gran Fury, and Annette Lemieux, among others, will provide visitors an opportunity to explore the various visual and textual strategies employed by these artists, the manner in which they grapple with the complex politics of identity, and the distinct ways each work engages and implicates the viewer.
The Diversity Arts Youth Program is two week-long summer arts immersion retreat for teenagers weaving the performing and visual arts with dialogue about social justice and issues of diversity in the St. Louis community. This program is coordinated by the Diversity Awareness Partnership (DAP), an organization dedicated to promoting diversity in the St. Louis region.
Selected works
Annette Lemieux
Left Right Left Right
1995
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (Two White/Two Black)
1992
Gran Fury
Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do
1989
Wolfgang Tillmans
Billie Ray Martin, from Portrait series
1999
Wolfgang Tillmans
Supergrass, from Portrait series
1997
Wolfgang Tillmans
Su Khedev Reel, from Portrait series
2000
Wolfgang Tillmans
Brother Hugo, from Portrait series
2000
Wolfgang Tillmans
Irm Hermann, from Portrait series
2000
Wolfgang Tillmans
Paula, typewriter, looking, from Portrait series
1994
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (Two White/Two Black)
1992
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (Two White/Two Black)
1992
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (Two White/Two Black)
1992
Neal Slavin
World Body Building Guild (W. B. B. G.), Brooklyn, New York, from the portfolio Groups in America
1979
Neal Slavin
Grand Canyon National Park, National Park Service, Grand Canyon, Arizona, from the portfolio Groups in America
1979
Neal Slavin
Electrolux, a Consolidated Foods Co., Stamford, Ct., from the portfolio Groups in America
1979
Neal Slavin
New York City Transit Authority, Brooklyn, New York, from the portfolio Groups in America
1979
Wolfgang Tillmans
Alex, from Portrait series
1997
Wolfgang Tillmans
tightrope, from Portrait series
2000
Wolfgang Tillmans
The Point III, from Portrait series
1996