Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, and William Villalongo, group exhibition, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2004)

Featuring over forty works of art by the Studio Museum’s 2003–04 artists-in-residence, Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, and William Villalongo, this exhibition explored figurative discourses in all media, spanning genres such as performance and video, drawing and collage, painting and sculpture. Employing divergent vocabularies, these artists reinterpreted conventional notions of the figure, exploring and questioning oppositions such as actual vs. metaphoric, representational vs. imagined, and subject vs. object. Regardless of media or form, their language remained consistently figurative.

Image: Wangechi Mutu, Hide n’ Seek, Kill or Speak, 2004

Related:

Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, and William Villalongo, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004