Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 7 p.m.

K E N I S E B A R N E S F I N E A R T

In the exhibition “Daughters of Leucippus,” the close and precise observation of the fibers, tissues and corpuscles of torn fruit and vegetables is a way to examine the nature of living flesh more generally, with its universal processes of seduction, destruction and regeneration. The fruit acts as a surrogate for the human body. To make this substitution more explicit, I have borrowed the title of a Peter Paul Rubens painting, “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus” from 1618. In my talk, I will discuss the disparate sources and metaphors hidden in these works, including my research into human anatomy at the Yale Medical School while I was getting my MFA and my more recent interdisciplinary doctoral research in art and cognitive psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University.

– Andrea Kantrowitz