Join the artists on Saturday Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. for their talk about group exhibition "Embodiment: The Personal and Universal Body" in Moudy North Building room 132.

Co-curated by MA Art History Graduate students from TCU Abby Bryant, Alex Monge, Gabi Kaminski, and Katie Perroni, Embodiment: The Personal and Universal Body brings into productive conversation works from two MFA programs, Texas Christian University and UTA. 
 
On view at TCU Moudy Gallery during January 18 - February 3, 2024, Embodiment features four TCU and six UTA MFA Graduate students, and displays a range of media, including painting, mixed media sculpture, digital collage and photography. UTA artists include Emily Brown, Paula Currie, Shuang Gou, Nijal Munankarmi, Michael Scogin, and Brandi Alyson Simpson. TCU artists include Alfredo “Freddy” Ortega, Raul Rodriguez, Eli Ruhala, and Lauren Walker. 
 
Embodiment: The Personal and Universal Body highlights the paradoxical nature of the body in art. Contemporary artists consider how highly personal, tangible moments are mediated through the body. While a lived moment is unique to the subject, human experience is universal. Through the exploration of the body, this selection of work considers shared concerns of memory, conflict, history, belonging, and relationships as fundamental to human embodiment. As a universal medium, the body is largely taken for granted. It is not until one is confronted with the complexities of human existence— emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual elements— that the human form is fully appreciated. In this exhibition, the notion of embodiment is considered through three lenses: the fragmented body, the archived body, and the metaphorical body.
 
The fragmented body reveals the idiosyncrasies of human experience, highlighting the complex interrelationship of parts of the body to the whole. It allows viewers to question the monolithic nature of the body by investigating experiences related to particular sites within the human form. Meanwhile, the archived body considers how artists memorialize the body through image and text as both a method of preservation of and negotiation with the past. In this section, the body becomes an archive and reimagines itself through the archives. It becomes subject to revisitation and evolution through artistic intervention and interpretation. The metaphorical body explores the way in which artists use objects and symbols as supplements for their own human subjectivity. It is in paradoxical removal of the body that one becomes acutely aware of its role in enabling one’s own humanity.

Moudy Gallery is located in Moudy North Building TCU’s Campus, 2805 S. University Dr., Fort Worth. Gallery Hours are Monday - Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. Admission is free.