This Thursday October 10th from 11:30 – 1:00 p.m., Le’Andra LeSeur will be visiting CVAD as part of New Media/ the Electronic Media and Performance Art class. She will be giving an artist talk at 11:30, followed by an open Q + A, in the CAVE (ART 356) - and all students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.
Le’Andra will also be performing this weekend, Saturday October 12 at 6:00 p.m, at the MAC as part of the exhibition Cosmic to Corporeal: Contemporary Queer Performance Practices. Find out more about this here: http://the-mac.org/cosmic-to-corporeal/
BIO: Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Jersey City, NJ. Her work explores black identity informed by the effects that regulated systems of oppression have on black women, specifically. Through visual media, installation, and performance, her hope is to reclaim and dismantle stereotypes surrounding black female identity through the reworking of conventional art forms and mundane objects – ultimately reshaping the context of spaces where the lives of the oppressed are silenced and celebrated in the same breath.
LeSeur was the recipient of the 2018 Time-Based Category Award and Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 in Grand Rapids, MI for her piece, “brown, carmine, and blue”. She was the most recent recipient of the SCAD40 prize at SCAD’s deFINE ART festival in 2019. Her recent lectures include SCAD, the RISD Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum with Marilyn Minter in conjunction with The Tory Burch Foundation. Her recent residencies include NARS Foundation and Marble House Project. Outside of creating her own work, LeSeur has made notable contributions to the arts through her active participation in curating exhibitions and workshops for women of color that speak to the power in existing through expression in a world that shuns black women for these exact actions.
