ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Drawn primarily from the collections of the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum, Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body showcases a wide range of historical and contemporary works that explore the ways photographers have represented the human figure and bodily experiences of movement, aging, disability, and more.
Aaron Siskind, Lipkind 33, 1960. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Aaron Siskind Archive, 80.164.11. © Aaron Siskind Foundation
Featured works demonstrate how artists have grappled with physicality, dimension, beauty, form, and the politics of the body in the landscape and urban environment. Subjects are presented in the context of growing older, sports, and abstraction, offering audiences the opportunity to consider the body’s ability to morph and bear traces of lived experiences.
Terrell Groggins, Gabriels and Shields Square Up Round 1, 2018, printed 2021. Inkjet print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Center for Creative Photography Photojournalism Fund, 2021.01.06. © Terrell Groggins My Art My Rules
Header: Walter Iooss, Michael Jordan, Phoenix at Chicago, 1933, 1933. Inkjet print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Gift of Rajesh B. Patel, 2019.40.03. © Walter Iooss
EXHIBITION SPONSORS
Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body is co-organized by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography. The exhibition is curated by Emilia Mickevicius, PhD, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography.
All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.
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