Semblance: The Public/Private/Shared Self

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Doron Langberg, Courtesy of the Green-Christoffel Collection.

Louis, Tristan, and Sarah, 2017. Oil on Linen.

In an age of heightened recognition on the idea of identity—what it means, how it affects us, its fluidity or its unchangeability, its overall importance—three artists bring their individual explorations of "self" to the LSU Museum of Art.

Jonathan Lyndon Chase presents visceral figures blending and broken in vibrant colors and glitter, evoking aspects of gender, sexuality, and mental health against a background of societal pressure defining what it means to be masculine. 

Heidi Hahn uses large scale oil paintings to render an inward focus, women aloof and stolid against the public demands of their sex. Hahn overlays these presentations of mundane daily activity and relaxed expressions with rich layers of dripping color, signifying private psychological experiences and depth. 

Finally, Doron Langberg expresses the shared self. Under layers of painting, wiping, and scraping, her ethereal atmospheres shape the felt experiences of intimate relationships among family, friends, and lovers in domestic spaces. 

This exhibition will be on display from June 27–October 6. lsumoa.org.