February 3 – March 20, 2021
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
Installation Images:
Top image credit: Le’Andra LeSeur, Libérer, 2019, Neon, ceramic, C-stand, soil, water, Courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery