Clearly Human VI, an all-media group exhibition of artwork focused on the human figure. Clearly Human VI gives a comprehensive look at the many ways of representing the human figure, from traditional to contemporary, realistic to fanciful, beautiful to unsettling. The exhibit seeks a diverse view of humanity representing subjects varying greatly in gender, age, ethnicity, and nationality. The artists are encouraged to use the figure to explore a wide variety of themes, including definitions of beauty, perceptions of history, relationships with nature, and moments of everyday life.
Juror: Livia Xandersmith
Livia Xandersmith is a surrealist, figurative painter living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. She creates oil paintings and painted installations that complicate space and obscure the lines between the real and the imagined, the past and the present, and seeks to explore the power of images and memory within our contemporary and digital age.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Art History from University of Southern Indiana in 2018. After graduating, Xandersmith was awarded the Efroymson Fellowship, a $10,000, post-graduate award. In 2022, Xandersmith received her Master of Fine Art in Visual Art from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis. At WashU, she received a Thesis Production Grant for her installation work, A Comedy of Agency.
Xandersmith has exhibited her work in group shows around the Midwest, notable locations include Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, Des Lee Gallery, and Evansville Indiana Museum of Arts and Sciences. She frequently exhibits her work in solo exhibitions. Past shows include Duane Reed Gallery, Greg Hardwick Gallery of Columbia College, Carolla Art Exhibition Center at Missouri State University, and Granite City Art and Design District, among others. Xandersmith has upcoming solo exhibitions in 2027 at Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, The Sharp Museum at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
