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Body Partings—The Art of Christina Ramberg

May 11, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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An abstract female form from shoulders to thighs, without hands. The vagina is formed from an inverted torso and a pair of legs.
Christina Ramberg, Black ‘N Blue Jacket, 1981. Collection of Chuck and Kathy Harper, Chicago. © The Estate of Christina Ramberg. Photography by Jamie Stukenberg.

In her brief but impactful career, Chicago artist Christina Ramberg ruptured representations of gender. Whether in early work featuring the ahistorical, often abstracted female body or in her eventual depictions of a more disregulated, deconstructed body, willfully ungendered or regendered, Ramberg questioned and dissected the gender conventions that defined both her time and ours.

In this exploration of Ramberg’s work, artist and author Riva Lehrer discusses Ramberg’s artistic production through the lenses of disability activism, gender queerness, monster theory, and the creative process.

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Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. Her work has been exhibited in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, both in Washington, D.C.; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; among others. Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published in October 2020. Lehrer was a longtime faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago until her retirement in 2022, and she now serves as an instructor in the department of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University.

 

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Date:
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Free Admission

Closed Captioning

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Art Institute of Chicago
Phone:
312 443 3600
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Region
Downtown
Format
In Person
Audience
Life-long Learners, Scholars
Accessibility
Free Admission, Closed Captioning
Event Topics
Activism, Women Artists

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Location

Art Institute Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60603 United States
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Phone
312-443-3600
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