March Madness at Fort Gansevoort Gallery

March Madness is the second of two exhibitions Fort Gansevoort has organized to focus upon the culture of sport as represented in the visual arts. Curated by artist Hank Willis Thomas and gallery founder Adam Shopkorn, this year’s exhibition centers on the realm of athleticism from the perspective of women.

The show features a roster of 31 artists, all women, whose work subverts masculine archetypes and challenge more docile notions of femininity by highlighting the qualities of strength, fitness, and agility that are characteristic of physical skill and capability. These aesthetic observations of the physical form become metaphors by which to consider broader issues about empowerment, gender roles, beauty, politics, labor, and popular-culture – as well as ethnic and racial histories.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16, 6-9pm