2023 Exhibition: Speaking Figuratively
October 7, 2025Speaking Figuratively: Narrative, Emotion, and the Body
Schneider Hall Gallery
January 12 – February 10, 2023
Speaking Figuratively: Narrative, Emotion, & The Body offers diverse representations of the figure in art globally, thematically, and in various media. With work by 26 artists spanning the 17th – 21st centuries, Speaking Figuratively explores the ways artists utilize the human form—narratively to tell stories or comment on current political and social issues and emotionally to conjure feelings of bliss, desire, pain, or pleasure. Speaking Figuratively features 32 artworks from the UofL Hite Institute of Art and Design Permanent Collection.
Represented artists include: Pansy Phillips, William Henry, Alberto Giacometti, Mauricio Lasansky, Willy Habl, Henry Gotleib, Flavio Do Carvahlo, Alexander Brook, Robert Carter, William T. Wiley, Mark Priest, Jane Miller, Harold Gregor Jr. Edward Melcarth, Gerhard Marcks, Adriaen Van Ostade, Anders Zorn, Albert Edward Sterner, Rufino Tamayo, David Bumbeck, Mary Cassatt, Edwin Finch, Thomas Hart Benton, Utagawa Toyokuni, Morikawa Chikashige, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Images: Image: Left: Rufina Tamayo, Women Bathing, 1937, Watercolor; Right: Edward
Melcarth, Bathers, 1952, Brush and Ink Was
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