Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, and Christina Forrer, on view at Beeler Gallery Monday, Aug. 23–Saturday, Nov. 6, is a consideration of how we collectively reset ourselves after COVID-19’s dramatic and fatal strike across our worlds. How do we newly interact? How do we reassert our social selves? What do we do with our bodies now that we are reapproaching proximity and intimacy? As we consider being close to others again questions arise: Where do I stand? Where is it safe? Where is it appropriate? Twenty-four works by Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, and Christina Forrer are gathered to help us think about these questions and consider the space around and between our bodies. Let us survey the damage and the remains and take to the world again with desire and fear, both too close and too far from each other and figure out again how we stand with each other, and like Ovid begins his Metamorphoses: “Of bodies chang'd to various forms, I sing.”

Artists

Photographs by Jake Holler

Curator

Greer Pagano is an independent curator based in Philadelphia, PA. Most recently, Pagano taught in the Art History Department at CCAD. Prior to her teaching position she was Chief Curator at the Pizzuti Collection where she organized numerous exhibitions including work by: Sarah Cain, Zachary Armstrong, Hank Willis Thomas, Odili Donald Odita, Deana Lawson, Alec Soth, Glen Baldridge and Alex Dodge. Greer Pagano has also been an instructor for undergraduate art education and art history at The Ohio State University and a curatorial assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She holds a BA in Art History and Italian from Washington University in St. Louis, an MA in Art Education at The Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. in History of Art from The Ohio State University. Her dissertation focused on the early career of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone.