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Title:	Embodied
Date:	3/9/2024 - 9/21/2024
Address:	The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota FL 34243
Location:	Sarasota, FL
Hours:	10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $25
Web Page:	https://www.ringling.org/event/embodied/
Contact Info:	941-359-5700

Details:

The figure is one of the oldest records of our existence as a species capable of storytelling; depictions of the human body constitute some of the oldest subjects in art. EMBODIED expands on the definition of the human figure by bringing together diverse representations in painting, sculpture, fiber, video, and mixed media by some of the most exciting artists working in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Highlights include mixed media work Still Life with Quilt and Drinking Gourds (2021) by William Villalongo, who merges tropes from the European still life painting tradition with elements from Black histories, pop culture, and mass media to bring awareness to “the body as an abstraction, one of resiliency and flux that rewrites itself as it moves through the world.” Also on view are Tony Tiger’s Time and Place: Egmont Key – Indian Territory – LA – Oklahoma (2019), the first abstract painting by a contemporary Native American artist acquired by The Ringling; and Cauleen Smith’s film Egungun: Ancestor Can’t Find Me (2017), which draws from the movement of Afrofuturism and borrows elements from an exquisitely layered Egungun (a costumed dancer who appears at celebrations for the dead in Yoruba societies) to acknowledge Florida’s fraught past.