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| Installation view of Andy Warhol & Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York City, July 10, 1985 By Michael Halsband |
The Andy Warhol Museum's presentation of Mixed Signals opens on May 26th, 2011 - August 2011 and features work by artists including Tim Hadfield, Wardell Milan, Duane Rieder, and Michael Halsband.
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Guest curator for the exhibition is Christopher Bedford. 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.
Mixed Signals features works by contemporary artists that probe the stereotype of the American male athlete. This particular theme has become increasingly prevalent during the past several years. The exhibition features such well-known artists as Matthew Barney, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, and Sam Taylor-Wood to emerging talents such as Shaun El C. Leonardo and Joe Sola. Mixed Signals demonstrates that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before. Using elements of wit, sarcasm, and controversy, these artists challenge cultural assumptions that gender is natural or innate. Instead, they emphasize the many ways masculinity is always performed, coded, and socially constructed, perhaps even more so in the spectacular, media-saturated field of sports. Rituals of male bonding typical to various sports are explored as well. Another key theme of this exhibition pertains to the materials, symbols and regalia of sports that signify the prowess of the wearer. Additional artists featured in this exhibition are: Mark Bradford, Marcelino Gonçalves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brian Jungen, Kurt Kauper, Kori Newkirk Paul Pfeiffer, Marco Rios, and Hank Willis Thomas.
For more information on the show please visit: http://www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=2909
To view images by Michael Halsband please visit www.michaelhalsband.com
