Jana Marcus: Transfigurations

Date
Mon January 7th 2008, 9:30am
Event Sponsor
Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Location
Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Jana Marcus brings her award-winning photographic exhibition of portraits featuring transgender people to the Stanford campus. Jana Marcus is a Santa Cruz based artist. Consisting of large black and white images with accompanying texts, Transfigurations explores transgender people and their notions of masculinity and femininity as they change gender identities. Marcus' photographs shed light on the transformation from one sex/gender to another, forcing us to discover that gender is both real and illusory, natural and constructed. The series also explores the importance of the body to gender identity as well as the effects of transformative practices on the body. Blurring the lines of gender separation and stereotype, Marcus' photographs ask us to question what it means to be a man or a woman. Transfigurations was awarded the prestigious Best Photos of The Year in both 2004 and 2005 by Photo District News of New York. It was also included in The International Photography Awards 2005, the Phelan Art Award 2005, the Excellence in Photography Award from San Jose State's School of Art & Design, and The Center for Photographic Arts Awards 2004. 

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