When an artist puts her identity on display, she might show beauty, or the sights unseen. For Rhode Island-based sculptor and performance artist Doreen Garner explores her sexual, gender and racial identity by reversing the gaze, twisting it and presenting it in a unsettling, grotesque way—demonstrating what impact that gaze has in the first place. Garner will bring her contemporary, timely work to Toledo for a TMA Guest Artist Pavilion Project residency from October 12-19. On Friday, she will discuss her glass work inspired by HeLa cells. “HeLa cells were taken in the 1950s from a tumor inside the cervix of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman living in Baltimore,” Garner said. “They were used for medical advancement as the first and only immortal cell line [taken from her] without her knowledge.” Hear the talk at 7pm on Friday, October 14.
Toledo Museum of Art GlasSalon | 2445 Monroe St.
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