SKIN 2003 Part 2

2 Part / International Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibit

ICEBOX presents: The human body in art. Figures, eros, fragments, politics, mirrors, estrangement, mind, and metamorphosis in a two part exhibit of more than one hundred works of art from around the world. Exhibit juried by Howard M. Christopherson. See SKIN 2003 part 2

SKIN 2003 was initially conceived as a single show, but the artists‚ response to the call for entries was so great and the artwork so diverse that Howard Christopherson, creator and sole judge, decided to create a pair of exhibits about the human body. Christopherson made the selection from over 525 pieces of art in one long night. "After I was immersed in the selection process, I realized that I had enough worthy art to mount a second show" said Christopherson.

SKIN 2003 Part 1 has become Icebox Gallery's most well-attended exhibit in its fifteen year history, beginning with a packed opening night of 460 people, and going on to receive several complimentary critical reviews in the press. Part 1 was a success, but it only took us half the way through a marvelous collection of art. In SKIN 2003 Part 2, the exploration continues by artists enamored with the spectrum of power, politics and beauty available within the image of the human body.

The art, in a variety of media, has been selected and paired in ways that seem to „cross pollinate‰ the multitude of visual ideas present in a group show of this size. Many times there is a similar or contrasting visual element that has been created by two artists, each unaware of each other. The artwork in the exhibit is displayed and edited in such a way that it can create an adjunct serendipity and cross-over of artistic statement, appearance, and media.

Hints about Skin 2003 Part 2:
Part 2 will push the "erotic button" in several new ways: in a challenging image created from 1960's porno by New York photographer Sid Kaplan, and in a larger than life relief sculpture of her own genitalia made by Miami native and self-proclaimed erotic artist Lori Benson. The human body as portrayed in myth and legend takes on similar forms in a painting by Jacqueline Plavier from New York and a digital image created by Maine artist Ann Falcone. Humor is alive and well in artwork by Mankato photographer Elisabeth Jenssen and Shafer, Minnesota sculptor Steven Rolf Kroeger. Their humorous approach contrasts and gives the viewer comic relief from difficult images, such as two graphic and sobering photographs of scarred bodies by San Francisco photographer Amie Potsic. A timely reference to peace and the recent peace movement is seen in a documentary image by New Mexico photographer Jennifer Esperanza, and war shows its naked self in a confrontational color image, gas mask and all, by Erin Buchner of Minneapolis.

Howard M. Christopherson

Part 2 / OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 3 - Show Ends June 14, 2003.
Each exhibit has a $2 Admission. Opening times: 8 PM --1 AM
Due to the mature nature of this exhibit, no one under the age of 18 will be admitted.