BOSTON, MA.- The Boston University Art Gallery presents the exhibit Offspring Representations of Children in Contemporary Visual Culture through October 8. Offspring takes a particular look at representations of children in contemporary visual art and culture, and features works by an impressive and diverse group of nine artists working in painting, photography, and film including: Stephen Chalmers, Christin Couture, Nicky Hoberman, Jill Greenberg, Melora Kuhn, Loretta Lux, Maria Marshall, Nicholas Prior, and Jane Smaldone. Combining the work of emerging and established American and International artists working in various media, Offspring concentrates on works completed in the past six years in order to test the ways children are perceived and visualized at the turn of the twenty-first century. The exhibition also includes images and objects pulled from advertising and popular culture, used to create a broader visual context for comparison. Investigating a range of representations, Offspring seeks to sort out our real and imagined perceptions of children in the early twenty first century.