Opening reception: AVATARS // ghosts

Nave Gallery presents AVATARS, a two-part exploration curated by
Christina Balch, Giuliana Funkhouser and Krista Wright

PLEASE NOTE: The performance by Xray Aims will feature needles piercing skin, and there may be some blood.

The first exhibition, AVATARS // ghosts, attempts to document the ways that artists represent their bodies, their ideas, their nations, and their dead in today’s digital world where the physical and virtual, human and non-human, self and other, are increasingly intertwined and indistinguishable. “Avatar” is originally a Sanskrit word describing mortal incarnations of Hindu deities. In colloquial use, the term refers to a digital image or 3D character representing an individual on the internet. Drawing inspiration from these concepts, the AVATARS exhibitions are a transdisciplinary exploration of folkloric characters, alter-egos, cyborgs, and incarnations. AVATARS // futures, the second exhibition curated by Christina Balch, continues the exploration of avatars in new media.

AVATARS debuted at the San Francisco Art Institute in fall of 2018. A selection of works from the original San Francisco show will travel to Somerville to continue the thread of the exhibition from its inception and to provide different perspectives from both East and West coast artists.

Artists: Amayi Morales / Annalisa Oswald / Basil El Halwagy / Caleb Cole / Charity Everett / Claire Sorosky / Colleen Kiely / Eleanor Schnarr / Elisabeth Eckman / Eliza Phelan-Harder / Giuliana Funkhouser / Heather Caunt-Nulton  / Jonathan Nix / Julia Cseko / Karli Janell / Katie Wild / Kels Hyde / Krista Wright / Lauren Kalman / Marco Castaneda / Mark Roemisch / Minjun Kim / Nancy Sepe / Oscar Lopez / Peter Morse / Rachel Shatil / Sally Lee / Selvaggio Dordetti / Shelby Meyerhoff / Skunk / solYchaski / Sue-Yee Leung / Valeriya Volkova / Whitney Humphreys / Xray Aims

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