W&L’s Staniar Gallery Presents ‘Profiled’ by Artist Ken Gonzales-Day The photography exhibit will be on display April 26 through May 28, with a virtual artist talk on May 11 at 5:30 p.m.
Profiled Series: Untitled: Bust of an African Woman by Henry Weeks; marble, 1859; The J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles and Bust of Mm. Adélaïde Julie Mirleau de Newville, née Garnier d’Isle by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle; marble, 1750s; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009 (printed 2017); Edition of 5 Archival ink on rag paper; 32 x 61 inchesWashington and Lee’s Staniar Gallery presents “Profiled,” a series of photographs by Ken Gonzales-Day. The exhibit will open on April 26, and the works will be on display through May 28, with a virtual artist talk on May 11 at 5:30 p.m.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Staniar Gallery is open to W&L community members only via swipe card access to Wilson Hall between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (seven days a week). The exhibit can be accessed remotely through a virtual gallery tour, and the talk with Gonzales-Day will be held over Zoom. Links to both, which are free and open to the public, will be posted to the gallery’s website: https://my.wlu.edu/staniar-gallery/current-season/ken-gonzales-day.
In his “Profiled” project, artist and art historian Gonzales-Day has mined the collections of established museums such as J. Paul Getty and the Smithsonian, among others, photographing portrait busts exploring Western assumptions about beauty and human value through the material legacies of slavery, colonialism and white privilege. Gonzales-Day is an internationally known artist based in Los Angeles, where he is a professor of art at Scripps College. His conceptual, research-based practice focuses on historically constructed systems of race and the limits of representational systems.
The Staniar Gallery is located on the second floor of Wilson Hall in Washington and Lee University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts. For more information, please call 540-458-8861.
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