This summer, the Hite Art Institute presents Summer Breaks: Labor, Leisure, Lust. Featuring prints from the permanent collection, this exhibition explores 20th Century depictions of American consumption in relation to traditional codes of viewership. Breaks—whether from work, to the beach, or into a good book—diverge from the quotidian into the unconventional and even the erotic. Yet as the prints in this exhibition reveal, such departures are only possible due to other forms of labor or exploitation. Summer Breaks demonstrates how popular motifs can be recoded to break from or maintain dominant ideologies, distorting the line between who is at work and who is at play.

Summer Breaks was curated by Ashley Braunecker, Hunter Kissel, and Madison Sevilla as part of the Critical and Curatorial Studies methodologies seminar.

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

On View:
May 19 - August 5, 2016
Schneider Hall Galleries
Hite Art Instiute