Riva Lehrer: Beauty in Exile (Artist’s Lecture)
@ Gallery 400, Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria, Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, February 9th, from 2 pM - 4 PM
Presented by Bodies of Work, 3Arts, UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development, and the Disability Resource Center at UIC, EXPOSURE features the work of the 2015 – 2016 3Arts UIC Fellows, Riva Lehrer, Arlene Malinowski, and Barak adé Soleil. This new series offers insight into the practices of artists exploring the intersectionality between disability, art, and culture. Through this series of programs, EXPOSURE intends to continue the dialogue around issues of disability aesthetics in cross-media artistic modes of production.
We live in a world utterly obsessed with physical beauty, yet disability seems to exempt one from being seen as beautiful. This talk is in part a memoir of sexual identity, and in part an examination of the societal wall that separates the disabled from inclusion in corporeal delight. Images will be shown from the history of Lehrer’s art, which strives to uncover the glamor inherent in non-normative bodies.
This series is free and open to the public.
ASL interpretation, real-time captioning, audio description and personal assistants will be provided. This is a wheelchair accessible space. Please refrain from wearing scented products.
This series is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts to 3Arts. Bodies of Work and UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development are proud to partner with 3Arts to present these unprecedented fellowships and public programs in support of disability culture.
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: 3Arts, Disability, Disability Aesthetic, Disability Arts & Culture, drawing, lecture, painting, Riva Lehrer, screening, UIC
« previous event
next event »