NORMAL, Ill., Sept. 29 -- Illinois State University issued details related to the following event:
AJ Westley's "Looking at Men" exhibit at the Rachel Cooper Art Gallery opens September 29th, featuring portraits and mixed media pieces. Westley is from Washington, IL and is an Illinois State senior studying fine arts and art history.
Westley explores a masculinity that is positioned in a perceived place of crisis-a state where the aging body is at odds with cultural ideals and conventions that have informed these individuals' self-views up until the moment where the body begins to "fail." He attempts to probe at this psychological mismatch by exploring the ways in which older men experience this gender tension, the things they do in respon...