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Past Event

Eric Rhein: Lifelines Exhibition

Institute 193, Lexington, KY

Date:
June 19, 2019–July 24, 2019
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Price: Free
Location:
Institute 193
193 N Limestone
Lexington, KY , 40507
United States
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Kissing Ken Eric Rhein 1991

Kissing Ken (self-portrait with Ken Davis), 1996, silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 inches

Visual AIDS Artist Member Eric Rhein will open his solo exhibition, Lifelines at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky. With family heritage in Appalachia, New York-based Rhein has gained international recognition as an artist whose artwork embodies themes of love, sexuality, and identity through his ever-evolving experience with HIV.

A series of photographs, taken over the course of almost two decades, serves as the focus of the exhibition. They were taken during a period roughly parallel to Rhein’s diagnosis with HIV in 1987— after which he encountered compromised health and near death—through to his experience of a renewed sense of vitality after life-saving drugs were introduced in the mid-90s. The images highlight the role of intimacy and care as survival tactics in their depiction of one person's response to a global and ongoing crisis.

Also on view are related bodies of work in video, wire drawing, and watercolor that evoke spiritual and mystic readings of lineage, family, and healing indicative of Rhein’s understanding of the world around him.

A corresponding exhibition will be held at 21C Lexington, opening on June 19 and running through August. Additionally, the first full -length book on Rhein’s work, also called Lifelines is due out from Institute 193 Press this summer.

Eric dedicates these exhibitions to the memory of his uncle Lige (Elijah) Clarke, from Hindman, Kentucky, a leading pioneer in the gay rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s.

Eric Rhein
received his BFA and MFA at the School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and American Embassies in Austria, Cameroon, Greece, and Malta. Reviews of Rhein’s work have appeared in The New York Times, the Huffington Post, Art News, and Art In America. Eric is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art's "Visual Arts & the AIDS Epidemic Oral History Project.”

Artist Reception: Friday, June 28th 4 – 8 PM
Gallery Open: Wednesday - Saturday 11 – 6 PM

For inquiries contact:
Paul Brown
Paul@institute193.org
270-925-2311


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