MKAD announces the upcoming group exhibition, Transfiguration: Engaging with Figure Through Process. Curated by MKAD’s Youth Workforce training program, this exhibition is located at The DRAW Gallery at Energy Square, 24 Iwo Jima Ln, Kingston, NY, with an opening reception on Saturday, May 31, from 4-6 pm. This exhibition showcases the work of local artists Tara Foley, Phoebe Rotter and Lindsey Wolkowicz.

The MKAD Youth Workforce program offers paid internships in the arts and arts management for youth ages 14 to 24. The DRAW Gallery serves as a training ground for the program interns to gain hands-on experience in all aspects of the curatorial process – from planning, hanging, and promoting an exhibition.

“Transfiguration” presents a collection of artwork representing the human figure chosen for their artistic process and audacious representation of the body. These works invite viewers to focus on the techniques, medium, and labor used to bring them to life. Dissecting an artist’s process of capturing and contriving the figure can inspire an audience to contemplate and reframe the functions, substance, and sensation of the human body.

This selection of work showcases evidence of the artist’s hands and tools, the use of unconventional techniques and material, installation that interacts directly with the gallery, and pieces that compel admirers to get in close and inspect the construction of an artwork. These works entwine, exaggerate, and abstract the figure to explore intimacy, gender, self, and the multiplicity of touch. As we foreground the technical and physical work these artists take to create these figures, we invite viewers to question the processes of their own body, letting that inform how they engage with the artwork.