Ellen Lesperance
Current and Upcoming exhibitions
Nashashibi/Skaer Thinking Through Other Artists
Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
10.20.18 - 1.06.19
Half of the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
08.31.18 - 03.31.19
New Materialism
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
09.04.18 - 11.11.18
Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, and Resistance
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
10.27.18 - 01.27.19
Women. Now.
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
08.26.18 - 2.18.19
To Make Wrong/Right/Now
Honolulu Biennial, Honolulu, HI
03.08.19 - 05.05.19
News
September 2018 Solo: "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."
September 2018 solo: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artillery Magazine
Arthur Ivan Bravo reviews my NYC solo show at Derek Eller Gallery in the Nov/Dec 2018 painting issue of the magazine.
September 2018 solo: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail
Hovey Brock writes: "The ten shimmering gouaches at Ellen Lesperance’s solo show at Derek Eller Gallery introduce an artist whose execution and ideas complement each other with rare precision."
"Pattern Recognition," frieze issue 189
Jennifer 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."
Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change
My essay on the visual tactics of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp acivists, "Considerations of Equity in Feminist Visual Tactics," is published in a new book by Routledge (edited by Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, and Manisha Sharma).
Peace Camps
$18.00
($6.00 shipping)
My 130 page, soft cover novel with illustrations by artist Jeffry Mitchell, printed by Container Corps, Portland, Oregon in a signed and numbered, 2017 limited edition of 250. Still available.