“Salon Style” Exhibition
The Studio Museum in Harlem
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Hair and nails are universal sites of expression, sites where one’s identity and personhood can be asserted, however temporarily. Through an interdisciplinary examination, Salon Style looks at artists that use hair and fingernails as subjects or media in order to explore the complexities of identity, and issues such as gender, politics and consumerism. As a way to actively merge the seemingly superficial with the world of high art, the exhibition title takes on two meanings; it references both the fashions that emerge from beauty parlors and an art historical term for the exhibition of a large number of works stacked upon each other in a limited space.
Salon Style explores the use of hair and nails as fluid sites of identity and self-expression through work primarily drawn from the Studio Museum’s permanent collection. The collection contains almost two thousand works of art, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation and performance.
Salon Style is organized by Hallie Ringle, Senior Curatorial Assistant.
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Schedule
from March 26, 2015 to June 28, 2015