‘Standing On One Foot’ At HMA

BRIDGEPORT — The Housatonic Museum of Art (HMA) is presenting “Standing on One Foot,” an exhibit that uses different forms of media to explore the intimacies of personal communication through the abstracted human figure, until December 1.

“Standing On One Foot” features the work of Barbara Grad, Heejung Kim, Jedediah Morfit and Lauren O’Neal. These artists manipulate the human figure to propose dialogues, which expand the dimensions of physical and emotional space.

“‘Standing on One Foot’ is an exhibition of artwork that presents the abstracted human figure to create a poetic spark,” said exhibition curator Barbara O’Brien. “The ways in which the body holds and expresses, states both emotional and visceral avenues of reception and expression seemingly at odds is an important inspiration for these works. The abstraction is often explored in the presentation of isolated parts of the human figure.”

Barbara Grad reduces the form to ephemeral line in her mixed media drawings etched into the surface of Lexan, a type of acrylic. When installed and lit, the line of the drawing is doubled onto the wall on which it is placed.

Kim Heejung moves between the intimate and the monumental in her video projections in which the intensity of the desire to communicate, both with language and gesture, is powerfully presented.

Jedediah Morfit’s sculptural wall installations reflect the “balance of power” in people’s lives.

The traveling exhibition comes from the Boston Center for the Arts. The Housatonic Museum of Art is at 900 Lafayette Boulevard. For information, call 203-332-5052.