Eighty-Six Reasons For Asylum Admission
by Kimberly J. Chapman
The Gold Masked Women | Porcelain & Gold Luster
October 20th, 2022 – May 14th, 2023
Hagen Gallery
Eighty-Six Reasons explores how and why women were sent to asylums in the 19th and 20th centuries and examines the unfair and misconstrued diagnoses and treatments they received at the hands of medical misogyny. The exhibition includes sculptures and paintings by Kimberly Chapman inspired by the West Virginia Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum’s “Reasons for Admission” that inventoried preconditions for mental illness. Chapman is a full-time porcelain sculptor in Cleveland, Ohio and has been featured in several group and solo exhibitions across the state. Her work has also recently been featured in the 98th and 99th Nicole & Harry Martin Spring Show.
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Sponsored by Doug & Deb Murphy.
“My work sheds light on dark topics – specifically what women endure. It’s in my DNA to heavily research past and present offenses and find creative ways to make something solid that says; ‘This really happened and is still happening today in one form or another.’”
— Kimberly J. Chapman
