Lynn Hershman Leeson

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON with Michelle Handelman in The Brooklyn Rail

Excerpt

“For most of my early life, I had very little acknowledgement that I was an artist. It was a point of contention. A great many relevant parts of my life that directly influenced the art I made were absent from the few stories that were being written about my work. When the pandemic happened and I wasn’t able to travel for my work I found that, almost without premeditated thought, I began to write what had really happened, and what caused certain aspects of my life to be reflected in the work I found important to do. Being grounded by the pandemic was a remarkable gift…”