Ellen Lesperance

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Current and Upcoming

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

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The Baltimore Museum of Art, 

Baltimore, MA

01.26.20 - 06.26.20


Velvet Fist, Artist's Book

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Published in conjunction with the solo exhibition, Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist at the Baltimore Museum of Art, with help from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation. PRE-ORDER NOW BELOW

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

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The Frye Art Museum, 

Seattle, WA

09.21.19 - 01.05.20

Artists on Artists: Ellen Lesperance

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MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 

Los Angeles, CA

02.07.2020, 7pm

Staying With The Trouble

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SMFA/Boston, Tufts University Galleries

Boston, MA

Curated by Kate McNamara

08.01-20- 10.31.20

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

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Solo, Derek Eller Gallery

New York, NY

September 2020

News

Early Press for upcoming solo exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in the Wall Street Journal

"'We Were White and Sleepy Before' -- the Baltimore Museum of Art's Radical Makeover" by Kelly Crow announces the museum's 2020 initiative to exhibit and purchase works only from women artists.

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Book: Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design

A multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design with a foreword by Jill Medvedow and texts by Jenelle Porter, Elissa Auther, Amy Goldin.

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2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

Claire Lehmann reviews my NYC solo exhibition at Derek Eller Gallery in the magazine's December 2018 issue.

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2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in the New York Times

Jillian Steinhauer writes on my September 2018 solo exhibition at Derek Eller Gallery, NYC: “Speaking about Greenham, a former protester once said, 'We weaponized traditional notions of femininity.' Ms. Lesperance continues the crusade in the realm of art."

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"Pattern Recognition," frieze issue 189

Jen Kabat wrote a features about my work in the September 2017 issue of frieze magazine: "...Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting."

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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

I am thrilled to have been awarded a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation biennial Grant. 

Recent Exhibition Archive

Less Is A Bore: Maximalist Art & Design

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

06.26.19 - 09.22.19

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender and Resistance

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2018 - 2019

Nashashibi/Skaer Thinking Through Other Artists

Group exhibition: Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

10.20.18 - 1.06.19

Lily of the Arc Lights

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

September 2018

New Materialism

Group exhibition: Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

September - November 2018

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Group exhibition: The New Museum, New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018

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Velvet Fist

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PRE-ORDER. This 100-page, soft-cover book is being published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It contains an introductory essay, over eighty examples of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protest knitwear, and a glossary of symbolism. It is being printed by Creative Print Group, Baltimore, MD, and it will be available in January of 2020 in a  limited edition of 500. 

Not available for International shipping.

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Thanks, Ellen Lesperance