Aliza Shvarts: Introducing Off Scene, Artspace, May 11-June 25, 2018
For the past ten years I’ve lived a strange contradiction for an artist: I’m best known for a piece that no one has ever seen. In 2008, I came to national media attention for my senior thesis in the Art major at Yale, which was banned by the university and has never been shown in any public way. My project, though controversial, was inspired by questions that I think are central to both feminism and art: What are our capacities as makers? What can a body do?