Exhibition Begins—Bharti Kher: Sketchbooks and Diaries
When:
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2017 11:00a -
Thursday, Sep 06, 2018 5:00p
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2017 11:00a -
Thursday, Sep 06, 2018 5:00p
Where:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$5-15
Categories:
Kid Friendly
Event website:
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/7759
Bharti Kher, 2015 Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner, was enriched and recharged by spending time thinking and living amongst the Museum’s extraordinary building and art treasures. The focus of this show is a series of drawings and notebooks Kher made during that time. The drawings are very tactile, often provocative, and charged with humor and a capriciousness that is smart and girly at the same time. They reflect on gender and motherhood, anatomy, and the physiology of pregnancy. They speak of empathy and love while investigating the enigmatic paradoxes and ambiguities of what it means to be human.
The Artist-in-Residence Program is directed by Pieranna Cavalchni, the Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art and is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Barbara Lee Program Fund. This exhibition also is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as by the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administrated by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture.
