Gallery Talk: Sculpture’s Uneasy Place in Our World Today: A Brief History
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Join Joy Sperling, professor emerita of Art History and Visual Culture at Denison University, for a special gallery talk presented in conjunction with Micaela de Vivero’s new exhibition, Gold, a Curse in Disguise, at the Granville Center for the Arts.
Over the past 150 years, sculpture’s traditional role in reinforcing power, authority, and cultural norms has been increasingly challenged. As those conventions have shifted, the meaning and purpose of sculpture have become more fluid, complex, and open to interpretation.
This talk will trace the evolving functions and meanings of sculpture as an art form. Joy will explore why contemporary sculptors often use unconventional materials and forms, revisit familiar traditions, or challenge long-held ideas. Through these choices, artists create three-dimensional work that speaks powerfully to our world today.
Joy’s publications explore patronage, marginalized artists, the contested place of women artists, sculpture, photography, illustration, and visual culture. Her recent work includes a study of Micaela de Vivero’s sculpture and an examination of how dolls carry cultural meaning. She is currently writing a book about how women artists in interwar New Mexico conceptualized Modernism, highlighting the many voices and perspectives that shape art and visual culture.
Joy taught 20th- and 21st-century art, the history of photography, and museum studies at Denison University. She lives in Granville.
Over the past 150 years, sculpture’s traditional role in reinforcing power, authority, and cultural norms has been increasingly challenged. As those conventions have shifted, the meaning and purpose of sculpture have become more fluid, complex, and open to interpretation.
This talk will trace the evolving functions and meanings of sculpture as an art form. Joy will explore why contemporary sculptors often use unconventional materials and forms, revisit familiar traditions, or challenge long-held ideas. Through these choices, artists create three-dimensional work that speaks powerfully to our world today.
Joy’s publications explore patronage, marginalized artists, the contested place of women artists, sculpture, photography, illustration, and visual culture. Her recent work includes a study of Micaela de Vivero’s sculpture and an examination of how dolls carry cultural meaning. She is currently writing a book about how women artists in interwar New Mexico conceptualized Modernism, highlighting the many voices and perspectives that shape art and visual culture.
Joy taught 20th- and 21st-century art, the history of photography, and museum studies at Denison University. She lives in Granville.
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