Events
Marian Lefeld | Light Memories of Venezuela
THUR. NOV. 5. 10:00AM EST - Join us virtually at the Shircliff Gallery as contemporary artist Marian Lefeld talks about her experience of living between the U.S. and Venezuela.
For over twenty years I’ve been teetering between two cultures, two languages, two places. Art-making allows me to create a separate space where I do not need to mediate, to reconcile distinct identities; a place in which I can conceptualize and affirm a sense of self - a space in which I fully belong. My latest work challenges my binary experience while creating a new, personal sense of place by alternating translucent, and opaque geometric forms overlapping landscapes of my homeland.
Her work reflects the high density of the capital city, Caracas, which is an improvised place sitting over an intricate geographical valley.
Shircliff Gallery exhibitions and speaker programs in the Art and Design Department are made possible in part with a generous grant from the Indiana Arts Commission; the Vanderburgh Community Foundation, a partner of the Community-Foundation Alliance, Inc.: and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support is provided by the Vincennes University Foundation.