Leesa Streifler, Managing Chaos, detail, gouache, ink, caran d'ache and crayon on yupo, 2014
- Sunday, October 21, 2018
- Cinematheque, 100 Arthur St.
How does our gendered subject-position frame our work and careers? For almost four decades, Leesa Streifler’s practice has critically examined gender politics, fearlessly presenting the suffering incurred by contemporary gender roles and presenting images in opposition to rigid social norms. Leesa Streifler will reflect on her artistic development through the lens of gender, beginning with her developmental years in Winnipeg, through her graduate studies in New York, to a three-decade career in teaching and exhibiting. How does gender function in art?
Free, everyone is welcome.
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Leesa Streifler returned to Winnipeg after four decades away doing graduate work in New York and teaching art at the University of Regina. Throughout, she has maintained an active studio practice. She has worked in painting, drawing, public art, installation, text, performance and digital photography. Her thematic concerns, always conveyed through the female body, explore themes such as agency, self-image, relationships, illness, the aging process, the grotesque, marginalization and interspecies communication.
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Thanks to Video Pool Media Arts Centre for providing equipment for the documention of the talk.
