XY September 30, 2009

Male sexuality is determined by the x and y chromosomes, yet what does it mean to be a man? Throughout the exhibition, the male body serves as a site of social agency through which norms of social conduct, and rebellion against normativity, are constructed, performed, and contested. By pondering the socio-cultural dimensions of male identity, whether through representations of male space, the body, or idealized archetypes, the exhibition questions the modes and methods of male behavior as realized and represented visually by artists.