ARTIST TALK | ELLEN LESPERANCE

Southwest
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When
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021
Noon–1 p.m.
Free
Where
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU
1855 SW Broadway Portland
OR 97201

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Join us for the second of three talks with Oregon artists recently added to the PSU Art Collection and whose work touches on themes and materials found in Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem, From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. 

Ellen Lesperance's paintings on paper, rendered in gouache in universal knitting shorthand, can be followed as patterns to recreate historic garments worn by women activists, warriors, and cultural figures. For the past decade, she has additionally archived protest knitwear worn by the separatist feminists of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp who demonstrated against U.S. nuclear weapons storage in Berkshire, England (1981 to 2000). In 2020, Lesperance published a book of this archive titled Velvet Fist.

The PSU Art Collection recently acquired Fist, 2014, gouache and graphite on tea-stained paper, which is located in the Vanport Building. 

Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

Support for this series is provided by The Ford Family Foundation.

Art in Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem is from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation and funding to support this exhibition and related programming is from Jordan Schnitzer through The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation.