Faculty and Graduate Students are welcome to join in a workshop with scholar, curator, and author Lex Lancaster to discuss "Abstract Tactics: Queer, Black, and Trans Approaches to the Prblem of Visibility."
Participants in this workshop will discuss recent scholarship on queer, Black, and transgender practices of abstraction in contemporary art. Lex Lancaster will facilitate a discussion on these recent art practices alongside the theories and approaches to the problem of visibility, issues of surveillance and burdens of representation that minority-marked contemporary artists are refusing and redefining.
To register and receive advance readings, please email Amy L. Powell.
If you have accessibility-related questions or would like to request an accommodation, please email kam-accessibility@illinois.edu.
About Lex Lancaster | Website
Lex Morgan Lancaster (they/them) is a scholar, professor, and curator who focuses on queer, feminist, trans, and anti-racist visual and theoretical contributions to the field of contemporary art. Their published essays and forthcoming book from Duke University Press investigate the phenomenon of queer abstraction, forging a queer formalist and materialist approach to the history of abstraction and its persistence in contemporary art. Lancaster is Assistant Professor of Art History and Gallery Director at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. They earned their PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017.
