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Dear ARLIS/NA Colleagues, We hope you can join us for this exciting upcoming event, hosted by the WPI. ... Marisol: Destabilizing Doubles and the Erotics of Sameness — with Cathleen Chaffee *Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET* Register here <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mDaMyGfgScGKQodaZ8qf8A> As Minimalist sculptors in the 1960s encoded their references to the human form in an abstract language, Marisol (Venezuelan and American, born France, 1930–2016) used figurative Pop sculpture to treat with absurdity or skepticism the stability of signs by which people are seen as gendered. At the same time, her drawings of the 1960s and 1970s manifested wide-ranging and nonconforming body forms and gender expressions. Through an examination of works featuring in the upcoming exhibition and catalogue *Marisol: A Retrospective*, this talk contextualizes the artist’s disruptive approach to the figuration of subjectivity, sexuality, and gender. Cathleen Chaffee is Charles Balbach Chief Curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, where she has organized exhibitions with artists including Christine Sun Kim, Eric N. Mack, Jacob Kassay, Tamar Guimarães, Anthony McCall, Erin Shirreff, Joe Bradley, and Ellie Ga, as well as historical and thematic projects including *Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective*;* Shade: Clyfford Still/Mark Bradford*; *Looking at Tomorrow: Light and Language from The Panza Collection, 1967–1990*; and *Overtime: The Art of Work*. She co-organized *Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings*, a collateral event at the 59th Venice Biennale. Chaffee previously held curatorial positions at the Yale University Art Gallery; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Chaffee holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is currently preparing traveling retrospectives dedicated to Stanley Whitney (opening at the Buffalo AKG in Spring 2024) and *Marisol: A Retrospective*, opening at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in October 2023. Jancie Creaney (she/her) Administrator and Communications Coordinator Wildenstein Plattner Institute Website: wpi.art Instagram: @wpi_art <https://www.instagram.com/wpi_art/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~