SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington St.

LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style was organized by the Kent State University Museum in collaboration with the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation and focuses on Neiman’s (SAIC 1947–50, HON 2006) striking fashion illustrations. Curated by Sara Hume, the exhibition unites 85 illustrations spanning Neiman’s early work in retail and commercial illustration in Chicago and his sketches and studies throughout the ensuing decades, exploring themes such as masculinity, celebrity, and the formal elements of gesture, line, and color.

SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington St.

Style is the Body Thinking is a group exhibition of international artists curated for SAIC Galleries by Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing Michelle Grabner. The exhibition examines the social and aesthetic affordances of style and figuration from the 1960s to the present, addressing style’s relationship to identity, power, labor, resistance, taste, the body, technology, and affect. Together, the exhibitions speak to the continued resonance of the body as a critical presence, conveyor, and social marker of identity within culture.