The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies invites you to participate in a conversation, performance, & community drag party to celebrate the closing of the art show, "KIN: Us & Our Kinds.”

Join the opening reception for a two-person show, with artists Rafael Neis and Anne Vetter, at the Institute of Research on Women and Gender’s Lane Hall on Tuesday, September 17, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm.

Neis’s exhibition, “KIN: Us and Our Kinds” gathers a menagerie of queer beings who dwell outside of normative gender and species. Across painting, drawing, and print, images of rogue zoology and extravagant gender congregate and commune. “KIN” engages ancient texts and comics, as well as a love for process and mark-making, and a disregard for the putative boundaries between abstraction and figuration.  

Panthropos (acrylic on canvas, 30 in. x 24 in., 2024) by R. Neis

Vetter’s photography exhibition, “Love is not the last room” is made in collaboration with the artist’s family—their parents, their brothers, and their partner. It is an examination of play and leisure, tension and freedom. This photography project explores queer familial relationships, and uses Vetter’s own gender fluidity as a lens to examine the gendered experiences of their family members.

Neis and Vetter’s exhibits will be on view from September 3 - December 6, 2024. A reception with the artists will take place on September 17 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm.
 
The fall exhibits are presented with support from the Department of Women's & Gender Studies, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, and the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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