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The public is invited to view the “Undressed” art exhibit created by Virginia-based artist Aimee Helen Koch. The photography exhibit opens Nov. 28 at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, located at 800 S. Brush St. The exhibit runs through Feb. 11, 2010. Admission is free.
Koch received her Master of Fine Arts in photography from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005. Since then she has exhibited in 12 solo shows as well as 25 group/invitational exhibits. This includes exhibits in California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and abroad in France. She has been a freelance photographer since 2001 in New York, St. Louis and Richmond, Va., where she has been published in Brick Weekly, Dance Europe Magazine, Style Weekly, Time Out New York, The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Village Voice. Koch has been involved with development and fundraising for The New Community School, ART 180, and 1708 Gallery, all located in Richmond, Va.
Koch’s work explores beauty and the signals of body language. Her images call attention to the fact that clothing and fashion influence female attitudes and understandings. She says, “Fashion tends to treat the body as mere mannequin. It is the clothing rather than the wearing of it that is purportedly significant. But on the runway, only certain bodies appear. The desire becomes not so much to wear the outfits as to accrue the status that beauty and conformity offer — it is to reach for the unattainable body and to punish the inevitable failure to achieve it.”
This exhibit is presented by the city of Las Vegas. The Charleston Heights Arts Center is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The center is closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays. Please call (702) 229-1012 for more information.
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