Speakin' Truth in Love - MFA Thesis Exhibition
Campus Location
Office/Remote Location
Description
“Speakin’ Truth in Love”, Aaron Cowan
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Donna Beam Gallery
February 16 – 25, 2022
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Donna Beam Gallery presents the MFA Thesis Exhibition for Aaron Cowan. Cowan mines his own history and experiences of growing up in Southeastern United States, wrestling with objects and materials from cultural identities of masculine power, their environments, and accoutrements. He hunts and scavenges thrift stores and yard sales, transforming what he finds from cultural identities of white, masculine power into expressions of poetry, beauty, and love that work against their original intents of indoctrination. Sports, hunting, and the male body are common ground for engagement and sharing ideas around undoing harmful aspects of masculinity by deconstructing and repurposing them into expressions of authentic emotion, vulnerability, and empathy rather than honor, strength, and mastery.
Price
Free to the public.
Admission Information
No charge for admission.
External Sponsor
Donna Beam Gallery, Department of Art, College of Fine Arts