Means of Identification,
Spotlight / Katz & Copley
August 23 - December 10, 2021
Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 4pm
Hanes Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Center
Every four years since 1963, a small group of students is charged with choosing new artwork that reflects the times to purchase for Wake Forest’s Student Union Art Collection. An extraordinary time called for an extraordinary response, and despite restrictions posed by the pandemic, the 2021 student committee delivered. The group’s priority in selecting this year’s art has been adding diversity to the collection.
Coincident with Means of Identification, two major works from WFU Art Collections, John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Rogers, Elizabeth Gorham Rogers, and Alex Katz’s Vincent with an Open Mouth, will be presented in the Hanes Gallery. The recent conservation of both large-scale portraits offers the rare opportunity to see them side by side. Created 208 years apart, they reveal the many changes in approaches to portraiture and the contexts within such works are created, linking them even to our moment's "selfies." A number of the works in Means of Identification are also portraits, which creates an extended dialog between the diverse works in the gallery this fall.
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