University of Notre Dame 3rd Year Painting MFA student Erin Hinz has been selected for the National Wet Paint MFA Biennial Exhibition 2014. The exhibition will run from January 13 through February 15, with the Opening Reception on January 17, 7-10pm at the Zhou B. Art Center in Chicago.
The National Wet Paint MFA Biennial Exhibition 2014 is an outlook and overview of top MFA painting programs in the United States. “Wet paint” refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium of painting. Now on its fourth edition, this growing and highly competitive juried exhibition will bring to the Chicago area some the most talented emerging artists in the country. The exhibition will be juried and curated by Sergio Gomez, Director of Exhibitions at the Zhou B. Art Center. In addition, Gomez is the owner and director of 33 Contemporary Gallery, contributor for Italia Arte Magazine, and founder of VisualArtToday.com, a curated online exhibition space for international contemporary art.
Hinz’s paintings investigate themes of identity, gender and sexual subjectivity. The work is informed by gender theory and feminist concerns regarding sexual pleasure and desire. The significance of this discourse within the context of Hinz’s paintings is simply that a sense of entitlement of one’s body, including one’s sexuality and bodily pleasure, as a right, can serve as a standard for the capacity to know and demand other rights. Her work focuses on what this sense of entitlement might look like. The paintings depict a realm of sexual subjectivity that is far removed from the disparate notions of female sexuality, yet acknowledges the social forces that position the female body as an erotic object. Instead of attempting to portray a collective experience of multiple kinds of bodies, Hinz focuses on a singular experience in an effort to offer a more in-depth, richer description of female bodily enjoyment.
Because of the enduring art historical tradition in painting of female objectification, Hinz, like many other feminist artists, attempts to take back the female form and present it with agency and free from objectification. In an effort to present the female body in this way, albeit Hinz questions whether or not this is even possible, Hinz depicts incomplete body parts so that rather than a complete body to be gazed upon, the human form exists in fragments sometimes merged into floating forms or other times developing out of the squishy atmosphere.
Hinz is a Gender Studies Graduate Minor and was awarded the 2012 G. Margaret Porter Graduate Writing Award for an essay entitled “The Work of Leonora Carrington: An Alchemical Transmutation of Gender through Magic, Animal and Narrative.” Her work has been featured in a variety of competitive exhibitions and publications such as the 2013 MFA Biennial at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, the 25th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, and Fresh Paint Magazine. She received her BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MA in Studio Art from Eastern Illinois University. University of Notre Dame 3rd Year Painting MFA student Erin Hinz has been selected for the National Wet Paint MFA Biennial Exhibition 2014. The exhibition will run from January 13 through February 15, with the Opening Reception on January 17, 7-10pm at the Zhou B. Art Center in Chicago.
The National Wet Paint MFA Biennial Exhibition 2014 is an outlook and overview of top MFA painting programs in the United States. “Wet paint” refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium of painting. Now on its fourth edition, this growing and highly competitive juried exhibition will bring to the Chicago area some the most talented emerging artists in the country. The exhibition will be juried and curated by Sergio Gomez, Director of Exhibitions at the Zhou B. Art Center. In addition, Gomez is the owner and director of 33 Contemporary Gallery, contributor for Italia Arte Magazine, and founder of VisualArtToday.com, a curated online exhibition space for international contemporary art.
Hinz’s paintings investigate themes of identity, gender and sexual subjectivity. The work is informed by gender theory and feminist concerns regarding sexual pleasure and desire. The significance of this discourse within the context of Hinz’s paintings is simply that a sense of entitlement of one’s body, including one’s sexuality and bodily pleasure, as a right, can serve as a standard for the capacity to know and demand other rights. Her work focuses on what this sense of entitlement might look like. The paintings depict a realm of sexual subjectivity that is far removed from the disparate notions of female sexuality, yet acknowledges the social forces that position the female body as an erotic object. Instead of attempting to portray a collective experience of multiple kinds of bodies, Hinz focuses on a singular experience in an effort to offer a more in-depth, richer description of female bodily enjoyment.
Because of the enduring art historical tradition in painting of female objectification, Hinz, like many other feminist artists, attempts to take back the female form and present it with agency and free from objectification. In an effort to present the female body in this way, albeit Hinz questions whether or not this is even possible, Hinz depicts incomplete body parts so that rather than a complete body to be gazed upon, the human form exists in fragments sometimes merged into floating forms or other times developing out of the squishy atmosphere.
Hinz is a Gender Studies Graduate Minor and was awarded the 2012 G. Margaret Porter Graduate Writing Award for an essay entitled “The Work of Leonora Carrington: An Alchemical Transmutation of Gender through Magic, Animal and Narrative.” Her work has been featured in a variety of competitive exhibitions and publications such as the 2013 MFA Biennial at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, the 25th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, and Fresh Paint Magazine. She received her BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MA in Studio Art from Eastern Illinois University.