Canceled: Drawing Inferences: The Politics of Looking at Figures

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How are images consumed? What do they tell us about ourselves? Join Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson for an ambulatory and participatory lecture in the exhibition The Expressionist Figure. The tour will examine ways that artists’ depictions of their subjects influence interpretation as well as the relationship between the collection and its display.

Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson is an associate professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in printmaking with a concentration in fiber, where her work treated citizenship and belonging, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society. She has an advanced degree in art history from Lunds University in Sweden, where she focused on contemporary art and social consciousness, specifically in the work of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon. She went to Sweden on a Fulbright scholarship for a project centered on Swedish emigration to Minnesota. She is currently the head of costume design for Out on a Limb Dance and collaborates with local artists on various projects involving both writing and making.