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    Le’Andra LeSeur: In Reverence

    February 3 – March 20, 2021
    Campus Gallery

     

    Le’Andra LeSeur, Libérer, 2019, Courtesy of the Artist

    About:

    Le’Andra LeSeur, Bucknell’s 2021 Ekard Artist-in-Residence, works with video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. Her work celebrates blackness, contemplates the experience of invisibility, and seeks to dismantle stereotypes surrounding Black female identity. 

    Related Events:

    2021 Ekard Artist in Residence Le’Andra LeSeur Gallery Tour
    Tuesday, March 16, 12 p.m.
    Presented in collaboration with the Department of Art & Art History. 

    Artist and Bucknell alum Le’Andra LeSeur gives a virtual walkthrough of her exhibition Le’Andra LeSeur: In Reverence, as she provides insight into her artworks, background, and experiences.

    Curatorial Text:

    Le’Andra LeSeur: In Reverence

    Le’Andra LeSeur is Bucknell’s 2021 Ekard Artist-in-Residence and is a Bucknell alum. She works primarily with video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. Her work celebrates blackness, contemplates the experience of invisibility, and seeks to dismantle stereotypes surrounding Black female identity, among other subject matters. In considering this exhibition, LeSeur offers, 

    “My work is about honoring – honoring ancestors, honoring lives I’ve never met, honoring family, and most importantly honoring myself through this process – and recently I’ve been focused on how the presence and absence of language aids us in this honoring.“

    This exhibition immerses viewers in a quiet avalanche of information. You’ll see multiple media, from video to photography to sculpture, that engage the senses as well as the intellect. Additionally, these artworks operate on intensely personal levels and simultaneously raise macro-social questions. We invite viewers to take your time with these works and allow them to do their work; consider the feeling of color, the meaning of a shape, and the import of a word.

    Exhibited Works:

    In Reverence (An Honoring), 2018
    Single-channel HD video
    7:58 minutes
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    What is in a name, 2019
    Single-channel HD video
    5:01 minutes
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    Sourced Rock, 2020
    Stratified rock
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    Joyce LeSeur, Formerly Black, 2019
    Analog photographic print, mat board
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    Blue is Darkness Made Visible, 2019
    140 handmade 35 mm slides
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    I Looked Up ……, 2021
    Neon
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    And in the same breath…, 2019
    Ink on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    Libérer, 2019
    Neon, ceramic, C-stand, soil, water
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    Superwoman, 2018
    Three-channel HD video
    6:48 minutes
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

    Passing Time with Grace, 2020
    Single-channel HD video
    45:06 minutes
    Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery

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