Friday April 19th
Alexander Hall room 108
10:30am-12noon Money Talks: Managing Credit For Thriving Artists
2:30-4:00pm #NoStarvingArtists Le'Andra LeSeur, SCAD BFA Photography alum. Check out this impressive resume and work https://lleseur.com/CV
“brown, carmine, and blue is a love letter to myself.”
A reflection of the artist's undying quest to break down power constructs that have continuously ostracized the very things that she identifies with: blackness, queerness, and femininity. The artist is concerned with the spectacle that has ensued as a reaction to black joy and black trauma, simultaneously, and how this has further created generalizations of what blackness truly is.
Through performance, video, and installation, the artists further dissects themes surrounding displacement, racially induced trauma, and the toll these things take on one’s mental capacity.
“How are we able to let go? How can we let go of the pain, the weight, and the anger that is caused by trauma?”
brown, carmine, and blue. is a direct answer to those very questions that have continuously been brought up in conversation surrounding black identity.
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.
For all inquiries, please email:
lrleseur@gmail.com
