The Nude in the 21st Century

Jennifer Agricola-Mojica



Joan Appel



Carol Blum



Robert Creighton



Robert Creighton



Patrick Deshaye



Patrick Deshaye



Irene Dogmatic



Grace Flott



Ghislaine Fremaux



Drea Frost



Laura Genovese



Jane E. Herrold



Valerie Hollstein



Kate Howe



Sebastian Hyde



Tom Jensen



Linda Pearlman Karlsberg



Linda Pearlman Karlsberg



Mark Kaufman



Ken Klos



Joe Lastomirsky



Sandy Lerman



Harold Lohner



Pat McCallum



Pat McCallum



Jessica McCoy



Joseph Miller



Richard Motchman



Richard Motchman



Sagan Newham



Robert Paulmenn



Franklin Ramos



Paul Rutz



Paul Rutz



Paul Rutz



Chris Sheridan



Chris Sheridan



Maya Sokolow



Jackie Ta



Tanya Tewell



Nanette Wallace



Nanette Wallace



Carrie Williams


FIRST PLACE AWARD

Ghislaine Fremaux

(Lubbock, TX)
Artist Website

Winona, Pastel, resin on paper, 87" x 51"

These drawings are the culmination of an interdisciplinary project examining the practice of social nudism among senior citizens. The works portray nudists over sixty years of age, each a resident of an intentional community in southern Texas. All subjects' participation was voluntary, and their poses were not instructed. Each drawing is executed in chalk pastel and fossilized under glossy resin, redolent of sweat. The nudists' exposure, which is for them 'normal', total, and not indicative of a surrender of power to the observer, challenges the objectifying trope of the "artistic nude". The aging body is widely ridiculed in media culture - a culture that works to compress bodies, with their great complexity, mutability, actions, and intensities, into flat, static images for judgment and consumption. I seek here to present these bodies not as images, but as living events. They are exhibited unframed, enabling the paper ('porous', perforable, and absorbent like skin) to itself be naked.


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