Awakenings

Awakenings assembles powerful and provocative images that question the nature of purity, innocence, and development. The artists revisit childhood rituals or symbols through many different approaches, at times playful and alluring, at times ambiguous and reflective. The works examine how a child's life is punctuated by a succession of moments of sexual awakening that will reverberate throughout adulthood.

The exhibition is curated by first-year students in the Center's graduate program, Dave Delcambre, Joanna Montoya, Prudence Peiffer, Aubrey Reeves, Pascal Spengemann, and Elizabeth Zechella. The exhibitions will present works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, on permanent loan to the Center.

Programs at the Center, including the first-year exhibitions, are supported by the Friends of the Center for Curatorial Studies and by the Center's annual benefit for student scholarships and exhibitions.