The human body has never ceased to be a source of creative inspiration. The artists in our first exhibition of 2025 use figurative art as a springboard to share personal narratives, create visual metaphors, grapple with identity issues, and confront the status quo at a time when bodily autonomy is under attack, and teachers can be fired for showing slides of Michelangelo’s “David.”
Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis (she/her/hers) serves as staff writer, archivist, and curator for NOT REAL ART. She enjoys rambling through NRA’s vast digital archive of contemporary artworks and getting to know the people behind them. After growing up in the Twin Cities, Kirsten darted between Florida, Russia, Sweden, New York, France, Italy, the Aegean Islands, and Washington, DC, before landing in Richmond, Virginia. A former New York gallery director, photographer, caterer, student of Russian literature, devout polyglot, and creative-nonfiction writer, she is currently plotting her next trip to Greece.
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