MAN/BOY

On View: May 11th-August 4th, 2017 
Opening Reception: May 11th, 5-7pm 

The Schneider Hall Galleries at the Hite Art Institute are pleased to announce Nick Hartman’s master’s thesis exhibition, “MAN/BOY,” on view in Covi Gallery. Hartman’s work explores manliness, machismo, and masculinity and the ways in which such behavior is learned by, and expected from, contemporary men. As Hartman says of his work, “Cultural iconography and expected gender norms are tropes I confront within my artwork. Drawings of seemingly everyday objects act as fetishized objects of supposed unobtainable ideals that deal with masculine societal norms.” Hartman draws on a variety of iconographic material for this exploration, from Popeye to Elmer Fudd to Charlie Brown. 

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