Ellen Lesperance
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Frieze New York
Derek Eller Booth
Randall's Island Park
5.3.18 - 5.6.18
New Materialism
Bonniers Konsthall
Stockholm
9.04.18 - 11.11.18
Solo Exhibition
Derek Eller Gallery
New York
11. 2018
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News And More Information
Adams and Ollman Gallery
I am represented by Adams and Ollman Gallery. Contact Amy Adams at amy@adamsandollman.com for inquiries.
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
I am honored to announce that I was selected as a 2017 grantee of the Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award.
WITCHPDX
The Portland-based intersectional feminist W.I.T.C.H. chapter is wearing 13 garments that I recreated from images of a Greenham Common camper this winter. You can find out more about their actions and how to support them yourself here:
Jerry Saltz on the New Museum's exhibition Trigger
10/23/17 for Vulture: "There are at least a half-dozen artists in the show using fabric, collage, embroidery, and other malleable materials to make art out of bits and pieces so that “Trigger” exhibits a strong subset of artists who indulge a fabulous Proustian drive to devour materials and processes in minutiae — including Ellen Lesperance’s reversal of this process using super-close-up pictures of knitted fabrics to make geometric drawings."
"Pattern Recognition," frieze issue 189
Read Jennifer Kabat's feature about my work in the September 2017 issue of frieze magazine. She writes: "...Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting."
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon is reviewed in the New York Times
9/28/17: "When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign" by Holland Cotter, "...the fine netlike patterns in Ellen Lesperance's gouache paintings are inspired by photographic close-ups of clothing worn by female activists, past and present."
Past Exhibitions
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
Group exhibition: The New Museum, New York, NY
September 2017 - January 2018
Cynthia Daignault, Dan Fischer, Ellen Lesperance: Makers Catalogue
3-person exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
June - August, 2017
The Subjects and W.I.T.C.H. 1985
Solo exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon with corresponding novel publication (available below)
August - November, 2017
Thread Lines
Traveling group exhibition: The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
2014, 2017
Run Now Women, XO!
Solo exhibition at Gallery Anne De Villepoix, Paris, FR
2016
Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, Traversing
2-person exhibition, The Armory, Pasadena, CA
2016
Peace Camps, a novel
$24.00
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130 page, soft cover novel with illustrations by Seattle-based, self-proclaimed "gay folk artist" Jeffry Mitchell, printed by Container Corps, Portland, Oregon in a signed and numbered, limited edition of 250. Still available.