Lynn Hershman Leeson

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON.

The gallery will present her most recent new media artworks with a selection of pieces from her 35-year career to complement her retrospective exhibition, Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson opening at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Hershman's touring exhibition's innovative web presence is accessible at www.henryart.org/hlandia/hershmanlandia.html.

Both the gallery exhibition and the touring retrospective coincide with the release of a comprehensive critical study of Hershman's work, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I. (Published by UC Press, the monograph includes a DVD with excerpts from several of her works.) In regard to the release of this book, writer and curator Christiane Paul describes the artist's contribution:

"The world that Hershman has created through her art is populated by doubles and clones, tele-robots, and artificial intelligences living on the Internet-- all of them engaged in the possibilities of constructing identitiy." Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art Author of "Digital Art" Thames & Hudson 2003 Stanford University has recently acquired the artist's archive, documenting her career in film, video, performance, installation and photography.

Hershman's work will also be featured in the upcoming exhibition, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art opening in 2007.

The artist will speak and give a video presentation on December 6th at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

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