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Fig' ure, v. To form, shape.
To represent a living being or body.
To picture in the mind, imagine.
To be an image, symbol, or type of.

The Figuring theme explores representations of the female form and identity. We look here at the female body nude and dressed, whole and in parts, abstracted and fleshed out, and represented in a range of figurative and allegorical guises.

Figuring
Fashioning
Portraiting
Telling
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Juxtaposition by Tracy R. Nichols.

Juxtaposition by Susan Shifrin, Curator.

Juxtaposition by Susan Shifrin, Curator.

Juxtaposition by james.

Juxtaposition by Camille.

Juxtaposition by Jamie Orose.

Juxtaposition by Susan Shifrin, Curator.

Juxtaposition by Susan Shifrin, Curator.

Juxtaposition by Brianne.

Juxtaposition by Susan Shifrin, Curator.

Juxtaposition by Susan Shifrin, Curator.

Juxtaposition by Becki.

Juxtaposition by Liz.

Juxtaposition by fel.

  Above image courtesy Bryn Mawr College Collections