HOMO IDENTUS
Just people. Like everyone else.
EVENTS
21 September 2017 – 24 September 2017
2nd International Integrated Art Exhibition
Wuhan, China
2nd International Integrated Art Exhibition
Wuhan, China
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HOMO IDENTUS explores the relationship between community and disability and the formation of identity as a response to hegemony.
Who are you?
How do you fit into the world around you?
Why do you think you fit in the ways that you do, or don’t?
Says who?
And under what authority?
The art installation, comprised of over 300 individual works, opens the conversation by representing the community in which artist Ketra Oberlander resides and creates. Her representations of friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and acquaintances fill the gallery space and surround “The Disabled”: flat gray representations of the afflictions from which she and her community suffer.
Whether one sees the suffering or the abundance of creation, HOMO IDENTUS provides an environment for approaching a deeper examination of how we each contribute to the community in which we live.
INCLUDING...
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Clara
10" w x 22.5" h
watercolor and ink
The colorful, dancing freeways of life’s journeys have overlapped to put my beautiful friend Clara into my life. An accomplished artist and electronics engineer, Clara shares an adventurous joy in her creative friendships and world travels.
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GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT OF:
 barbara
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 clara
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 ed
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 eileen
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 ellen
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 flo
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 jen
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 joanne
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 mod podge
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 pat
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 sacha
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 simeon
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 vikki
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 yao-pi
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MEET THE ARTIST
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Artist Ketra Oberlander began painting at 40 after losing her sight to cone dystrophy, a rare genetic disorder.
Internationally recognized for her artistic vision, her work graces:
Corporate and private collections
Feature films Side Effects, Broken City and Dead Man Down
TV shows Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Body of Proof and Person of Interest
The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the Huffington Post, San Jose Mercury News, WLIU, KGO News, DECOR Magazine, MORE Magazine and dozens of quilt trade press and consumer publications have introduced Ketra’s work to a broad audience.
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