Greenville Museum of Art to Premiere Embodied, Our New Collaborative Art Exhibition and Performance, in June 2026

We are delighted to announce that the Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, will present our upcoming collaborative art exhibition and performance, Embodied, in its West Wing Gallery from June 5 through September 19, 2026. 

Embodied will feature all new artwork and a performance  piece created especially for the GMoA exhibition. An opening reception will be held at GMoA on June 5, 2026, from 5pm to 8 pm.

As the date for the show approaches, we’ll share more information and a sneak peek at some of our work.

From the earliest cave paintings to the portraits, monuments, and cinema of today, artists have tried to share not just representations, but the complexities and contradictions of what human embodiment feels like and means. The recent controversy over Boston’s “The Embrace,” a bronze sculpture created by artist Hank Willis Thomas to celebrate the love and accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, demonstrates how powerfully audiences can react when an artist tries to represent human embodied experience in an unexpected way.

Like “The Embrace,” Embodied takes a new look at ways of representing embodied experience. Our focus will be on that timeless staple of artistic exploration, the female form. Traditionally, art has represented female subjects as purely visual objects, rendered as motionless and idealized forms with few hints of an inner life. Since the mid-20th century, artists, and particularly women artists, have begun looking for a new visual language that transcends this older mode of representation.

The writer and activist Glennon Doyle, in her 2020 memoir Untamed, wrote, “What we need are women who are full of themselves.” Our work will experiment with ways to present women in wall works as “full of themselves”: that is, as self-possessed, in motion, acting rather than being evaluated, desiring rather than merely desired. How does art depict a woman as embodying knowledge, agency, power, and a sense of justice without resorting to allegory or outmoded idealization? 

Although the artwork focuses on women, the questions we address through Embodied do not exclusively concern women. Rather, the work asks us all to consider what the body looks like, feels like, and moves like when someone has personal autonomy, a sense of one’s place in the world, and a presence that challenges preconceived ideas of what that person can or should be.

As with all of our exhibitions, we look forward to hearing what others think about the questions we raise with Embodied. We will have a special interactive artwork to give viewers of our work  a chance to respond to what they see.